摘要
All-out efforts needed to shield minors from gaming disorder As a doctor in a psychiatric hospital in north Beijing,Liu Huaqing has witnessed how Internet addiction shatters the life of children and their families.One of his patients at the Beijing HuiLongGuan Hospital was a 12-year-old boy who had not been to school since November 2020.Instead,he stayed at home,glued to his smartphone for more than15 hours a day,playing games and watching short videos.He often went to bed at 3 or 4 a.m.and stopped following the most basic daily hygiene routine such as brushing his teeth or taking a shower.