Beijing - China has set up an official body to promote "healthy" online computer games for young people to play in its popular Internet cafes, state media said Thursday.
The Professional Commission of Online Games will launch a national club for game-players and build a server of suitable games, Xinhua news agency reported.
The body will recommend "healthy games to juveniles as an effort to clean up young people's online environment," the report said.
It will also rate online games according to their various levels of "pornography, violence, horror, social morality and cultural implications," it said.
The growing popularity of the Internet and cyber-cafes is viewed with concern by the Beijing government, which prefers to keep the flow of information and recreation activities under tight control.
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By 2003, China had 13,8-million online game players, with sales of related products and services amounting to 1.3 billion yuan ($157-million), Xinhua said.
More than 30 percent of China's 87-million Internet users are believed to be students and 50 percent are under the age of 24.
Of these younger Internet users, 46 percent visit lewd websites, according to earlier state reports. - Sapa-AFP
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