China to Set Time Cap on Kids' Online Gaming, Limit Market Boom for Myopia
Liao Shumin
DATE:  Aug 31 2018
/ SOURCE:  Yicai
China to Set Time Cap on Kids' Online Gaming, Limit Market Boom for Myopia China to Set Time Cap on Kids' Online Gaming, Limit Market Boom for Myopia

(Yicai Global) Aug. 31 -- China's education and media authorities will restrict the expansion of online games sector and establish related time limits for kids in a bid to lower the number of new myopia cases among the young.

By 2030, China should achieve a dramatic decline in the proportion of new nearsighted children and adolescents, according to the plan that the Ministry of Education, along with other authorities, published yesterday. The General Administration of Press and Publication will do its part in limiting the increase in new online games releases and setting a time limit for juveniles' gaming.

Parents should accompany their children in using as few electronic devices as possible, the plan suggests. They should also set a time limit, particularly for preschoolers, allowing them to use electronics for non-learning purposes for 15 minutes at a time and no more than 1 hour in total per day.

Schools should forbid mobile phones, tablet PCs and other electronic products in classrooms. Teachers should do not instruct more than 30 percent through electronic tools and homework should in principle be done in hard copy.

The goal is to keep the rate of myopia at about 3 percent among 6-year-old children and reducing the rate to below 38 percent among primary school students. Maximum 60 percent of junior high school pupils and 70 percent of senior high school students should report such deteriorated condition of the eyes. Those whose vision ranks as excellent should be more than 25 percent of the population based on the National Student Physical Health Standards.

Editor: Emmi Laine

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Keywords:   Net Game Control,Shortsightedness,Myopia,Kids