This could be part of the goals of “common prosperity” that have been discussed in recent weeks. Parents could overrule in their own households, if they enable the child to use their adult account, but the government requests that the parents work together. On the other hand, this is not a law (laws must be issued by the People’s Congress), it is a policy that the NPPA is requiring game publishers to comply with and requesting parents to support. What was already quite limited has just become nearly impossible, and the specific hours of 8pm-9pm are important too – because one could imagine that parents might not want their children to have screen time at that hour of the day. This limits minors to 3 hours of online gaming per week, which is considerably stricter than the previous policy that limited online gaming to 13.5 hours per week. The new rule states that people under 18 years old will be allowed to play online video games only on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and legal holidays, for one hour per day between 8pm and 9pm. The National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA), the Chinese government regulator for video games, issued a new rule today that emphasizes the restriction of how much time youth gamers are allowed to play.
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