They are doing it because they want the Chinese to be the survivors and not to have their developing minds put to mush by excess online gaming.
A bigger problem than gaming is porn. Understand we can’t do much about adults with it, but we gotta try to limit the youngsters from having free unlimited access to it.
I credit my early interest in video games for my mastery of the computer and the development of my problem solving skills.
That said, everything is best in moderation. And, in any case, this is a parental issue, not a government one.
The ChiComs banning their youth from gaming more than an hour a day is the height of nanny-style totalitarianism. The Democrats would love to control our lives in this way.
I also doubt its necessity. The Chinese, who ordinarily engage in semi-torture of their children when it comes to education, would never let their children actually burn their lives down gaming.
More than likely, this will just make the average Chinese student, who is already stressed out, even more burned as the government dictates what they can and can’t do during what little free time they have.
Now they’ll have to remake the movie Idiocracy to show the chinese as our overlords in year 2505.