Government Controls Over Video Games In China

Government Controls Over Video Games In China

As everyone knows that it’s difficult for video games to have great prospects for development in China. Many people are very much puzzled by it. You will know clearly why video games can not gain a great development in China if you read this article. There’re two major restrictions that hold video games’ development back.

1)Limits on playing time
In recent years, the Chinese government has shown increasing concern over what it perceives as problems with the addictions to and negative influences from video games.
The Beijing Reformatory for Juvenile Delinquents claimed in 2007 that a third of its detainees were influenced by violent online games or erotic websites when committing crimes such as robbery and rape. In a high-profile case from October 2004, 41-year-old Qiu Chengwei was sentenced to death for murdering 26-year-old Zhu Caoyuan over a dispute regarding the sale of a virtual weapon the two had jointly won in the game Legend of Mir 3. Also, in September 2007, a Chinese man in Guangzhou died after playing Internet video games for three consecutive days in an Internet cafe.

2)Censorship
As with almost all mass media in the country, video games in China are subject to the policies of censorship in the People’s Republic of China.
In 2004, the Ministry of Culture set up a committee to screen imported online video games before they entered the Chinese market. It was stated that games with any of the following violations would be banned from importation:

* Violating basic principles of the Constitution
* Threatening national unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity
* Divulging state secrets
* Threatening state security
* Damaging the nation’s glory
* Disturbing social order
* Infringing on others’ legitimate rights

The State General Administration of Press and Publication and anti-porn and illegal publication offices have also played a role in screening games.
Examples of banned games have included:
* Hearts of Iron (for “distorting history and damaging China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”)
* I.G.I.-2: Covert Strike (for “intentionally blackening China and the Chinese army’s image”)
* Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour (for “smearing the image of China and the Chinese army”)

Due to these kinds of controls over video games, there’re only a few video game shops that are willing to set foot in selling video games.

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