{"id":809803,"date":"2025-07-01T22:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ztylezman.com\/?p=809803"},"modified":"2025-07-03T17:08:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:08:05","slug":"chinese-gaming-regulations-summer-2025-underage-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ztylezman.com\/en\/gadgets-en-2\/chinese-gaming-regulations-summer-2025-underage-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Gaming Regulations for Underage Players and Industry Response in Summer 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/amp-img><\/amp-img><\/amp-img><\/amp-carousel>\n\n
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Recently, students in mainland China have completed their exams and officially kicked off their summer vacation. At the same time, the two major gaming giants, Tencent and NetEase, have stepped up their control measures regarding underage players. They announced a restricted gaming calendar for the summer of 2025, stipulating that minors can only log into games on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 8 PM to 9 PM, with a total gaming time over the summer not to exceed 27 hours.<\/p>\n

According to new regulations, these measures will clearly restrict the gaming hours of underage players during holidays, continuing to align with real-name verification and other anti-addiction mechanisms. Additionally, NetEase has launched a program named Special Operation for the Governance of External Gaming Black and Grey Industries aimed at strengthening multi-faceted regulatory oversight. This initiative primarily focuses on combating the underground economy activities related to renting or selling gaming accounts, cleaning up false scam information on social platforms, and enhancing educational activities to improve the online literacy of young people, striving to create a safer gaming environment.<\/p>\n

However, some students are still trying to bypass these restrictions, such as borrowing their parents’ smartphones to log into games or using adult identification to register, in order to escape the system’s limitations on gaming time. As a result, authorities and platforms are intensifying their technical and regulatory measures, aiming to reduce these loopholes. Moving forward, finding a balance between preventing gaming addiction and respecting players’ autonomy will be a challenge that the entire gaming industry and society must address together.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mainland China’s new gaming rules for minors include limited playtime for summer 2025 enforced by Tencent and NetEase, aiming to curb addiction with enhanced oversight and measures to prevent circumvention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":807989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"In summer 2025, Tencent and NetEase implemented strict gaming restrictions for minors in mainland China, including limited login hours from 8 PM to 9 PM on weekends and a maximum of 27 hours of gameplay throughout the summer. These measures align with China's real-name verification and anti-addiction policies. To combat attempts to bypass restrictions, such as using adult IDs or borrowed devices, authorities are strengthening technical safeguards and enforcement. NetEase has also launched a program called the Special Operation to oversee underground gaming economy activities and online scams, aiming to create a safer and more responsible gaming environment for young players while balancing concerns over gaming autonomy."},"categories":[5012],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-809803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets-en-2"},"raw_content":"<\/amp-img><\/amp-img><\/amp-img><\/amp-carousel>\n\n
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Recently, students in mainland China have completed their exams and officially kicked off their summer vacation. At the same time, the two major gaming giants, Tencent and NetEase, have stepped up their control measures regarding underage players. They announced a restricted gaming calendar for the summer of 2025, stipulating that minors can only log into games on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 8 PM to 9 PM, with a total gaming time over the summer not to exceed 27 hours.<\/p>\n

According to new regulations, these measures will clearly restrict the gaming hours of underage players during holidays, continuing to align with real-name verification and other anti-addiction mechanisms. Additionally, NetEase has launched a program named Special Operation for the Governance of External Gaming Black and Grey Industries aimed at strengthening multi-faceted regulatory oversight. This initiative primarily focuses on combating the underground economy activities related to renting or selling gaming accounts, cleaning up false scam information on social platforms, and enhancing educational activities to improve the online literacy of young people, striving to create a safer gaming environment.<\/p>\n

However, some students are still trying to bypass these restrictions, such as borrowing their parents' smartphones to log into games or using adult identification to register, in order to escape the system's limitations on gaming time. As a result, authorities and platforms are intensifying their technical and regulatory measures, aiming to reduce these loopholes. Moving forward, finding a balance between preventing gaming addiction and respecting players' autonomy will be a challenge that the entire gaming industry and society must address together.<\/p>\n\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ztylezman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ztylezman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ztylezman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ztylezman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ztylezman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ztylezman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ztylezman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ztylezman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ztylezman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ztylezman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}