Experts ask for stronger juvenile protections

Legal experts called for China to protect juveniles through cybersecurity legislation and redoubled efforts against school bullying after several cases aroused public outrage and concern.

Fang Yan, a lawyer from Shaanxi province, said that it's good to see the nation adding to the protection of juveniles in the past few years, "but in some new aspects, such as cyberspace, the protection is far from enough".

At the end of 2018, China had 829 million netizens, of whom almost 20 percent were under the age of 18, according to the China Internet Network Information Center.