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Youth: Just Log Off
Online gaming is being called the newest scourge of Chinese society

By Simon Elegant

Sep 11

Last month, a promising 18-year-old from Tianjin given the pseudonym Zhang
Nanxing by Chinese newspaper arrived to start his first year at a university
in the northeast. Within days, he was arrested on charge of armed robbery
and attempted rape. Seeking money to fund his hours in Internet café. Z hang
allegedly stole mobile phones and cash from two girls, then attempted to imitate
what he’d learned surfing pornographic websites.

Internet addition, an obsession with online games, chatrooms and pornography is
an increasingly recognized problem in ultrawired societies like South Korea.
But widespread web access is relatively new in China, and there’s been little concern
until lately about the perils of overuse. Tao Ran, director of Beijing Military Hospital’s
Internet Addiction Treatment Center, claims that up to two-thirds of violent crimes
committed by adolescents are driven by Internet obsession.

In response, China has launched a 10-city “Break Internet Addiction” tour aimed
at the nation’s imperiled youth. If the problem isn’t tackled now, says sociologist
Tao Hongkai, it could have grave consequences. “The kids who are already
in their late teens or twenties don’t want to find a job,” he laments. “They just want
to stay at home and play games.”