China fights internet addiction with drills

China fights internet addiction with drills

Categories: Asia | Children

Online games are experiencing a peak in popularity among teenagers in China. Concerned parents are increasingly turning to special institutions that deal with difficult cases of Internet addiction. There are already 250 military-style training camps in the country dealing with this problem. The Qide Education Center in Beijing is one of them.

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China fights internet addiction with drills

China fights internet addiction with drills

1. The educational program in Qide includes psychological consultations, drills, traditional Chinese etiquette, music, dance, and cooking. In drill classes, students often have to receive group punishments. Not always as severe as in the picture. Photo: Reuters / Kim Kyung-Hoon

China fights internet addiction with drills

2. A student is talking to an instructor through a window in a door hung with photos of happy students. Photo: Reuters / Kim Kyung-Hoon

China fights internet addiction with drills

3. The barracks of the correctional camp in Beijing. Photo: Reuters / Kim Kyung-Hoon

China fights internet addiction with drills

4. Classes in drill. Students laugh while receiving group punishment. Photo: Reuters / Kim Kyung-Hoon

China fights internet addiction with drills

5. One of the teenagers with Internet addiction helps to clean the toilets in the camp. Photo: Reuters / Kim Kyung-Hoon

China fights internet addiction with drills

6. Students cook vegetables as part of an educational program at the Tside Center. Photo: Reuters / Kim Kyung-Hoon

China fights internet addiction with drills

7. In addition to physical exercise, teenagers in the camp are forced to take medication, as well as meet with a psychologist. Photo: Reuters / Kim Kyung-Hoon

China fights internet addiction with drills

8. Measurement of brain activity in a teenager suffering from Internet addiction at the Daxing Internet Addiction Treatment Center in Beijing. Photo: Reuters / Kim Kyung-Hoon

China fights internet addiction with drills

9. Music lessons. Photo: Reuters / Kim Kyung-Hoon

China fights internet addiction with drills

10. For a long time, there was very little information in the media about what was happening inside the correctional camps for Internet addicts, but a few years ago, a British publication reported the death of a teenager in one of these institutions. A little later, it became known about the death of a girl who died as a result of her injuries in another camp. Photo: Reuters / Kim Kyung-Hoo

China fights internet addiction with drills

11. A student in a Beijing paramilitary camp during a lesson with a psychologist. Photo: Reuters / Kim Kyung-Hoon

China fights internet addiction with drills

12. Classes for drill in a correctional camp in Beijing. Photo: Reuters / Kim Kyung-Hoon

China fights internet addiction with drills

13. Dancing at recess. Photo: Reuters / Kim Kyung-Hoon

China fights internet addiction with drills

14. In the photo: classes in traditional Chinese ethics in a correctional camp in Beijing. Photo: Reuters / Kim Kyung-Hoon

China fights internet addiction with drills

15. A teenager who has completed a six-month course at the camp hugs a classmate. Photo: Reuters / Kim Kyung-Hoon

China fights internet addiction with drills

16. Students say goodbye to a friend who completed a six-month rehabilitation course in a Beijing camp. Photo: Reuters / Kim Kyung-Hoon

Keywords: Addiction | Internet | China | Camp | Online | Teenagers

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