On Wednesday 2nd August 2023, The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has presented new draft regulations on the use of mobile devices and the internet by minors. If the regulation is adopted as law, no Chinese person under the age of 18 would be allowed to use a smartphone for more than two hours a day and those older than eight but younger than 16 would be limited to one hour a day, while children under eight would be restricted to 40 minutes daily. These limits and restrictions are targeted at preventing the rising problem of "internet addiction" amongst minors.
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These proposed rules by the CAC are currently open for public consultation as an adoption of this proposal would require all mobile devices, apps and app stores to have a built in “minor mode” that would restrict daily screen time to a maximum of two hours a day, depending on the age group. As a precedent, In the year 2021, China imposed strict time limits on video games for children, which restricted them to playing games for only three hours weekly. Also, during a four-week winter break, Tencent(a Chinese technology company) said elementary school kids could only use its gaming platform for a total of 14 hours.
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