Age ratings for cybergames are necessary

YU XINWEI, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee, has proposed a classification system for cybergames. Thepaper.cn comments:

Yu has called for clear standards so that we know which age group of children can play which games, and said that any classification regulation, if passed, must be strictly implemented by a specific government department.

Her proposal is timely because China has already become the largest market globally for mobile and computer games. In 2017, China's mobile games market exceeded 200 billion yuan ($31.5 billion), and there were 583 million players.