time of publication: 15:39
Beijing's 33-year-old unemployed person has died in an Internet cafe after nearly a month spent on the World Wide Web, reports RIA Novosti " with reference to the site" Tsyanlunvan. Cause of death not specified.
man died on Monday. Employees of institutions told that he not leave the cafe for the past 27 days. All this time he ate noodles. "Even the New Year holidays (from 3 to 8 February), he held the computer "- says the publication.
told journalists ordinary visitors to schools, they daily saw a man in a cafe, where he was, in their words, "slept and took food." Currently, Internet cafes, who worked illegally were closed for inspection. Computer hardware Institutions confiscated.
tragic event in the Chinese capital, according to media reports, is not the first death due to overuse residents Celestial online games. So, back in 2007 in Guangzhou city in the south of the country in one of an internet cafe a young man died of exhaustion after being sat a computer screen is "only" three consecutive days.
In 2008, PRC authorities have officially announced the dependence on online gaming a mental disorder. This notion enshrined in the first of its kind for China, the document "Standards for diagnosis of Internet addiction." Authorities also announced its intention to keep the opening new Internet cafes, and existing - to limit the time that visitors can spend at the online games (as recent news, is not very successful).
On the other hand, according to some sources, many Chinese gamers pay for their costs through online games. Professional players sits day and night in front of monitors at home or at Internet cafes. Most play for virtual bonuses, which they then sell for real money less skilled players. Buyers are mostly in the U.S. or Europe.
According to recent data, the number of Internet users in China exceeds 475 million people. The Chinese also, the study found a Canadian company TNS, carried out on the internet 44% of their free time (second place was taken by South Koreans with 40%, the third - the Japanese with 38%). Moreover, according to official statistics, over 14% of all young Internet users in China (more than 33 million people) suffer from of Internet addiction.
registered in the country for more than 40 million users of online games. Revenue from the gaming industry exceeded 1.5 billion dollars in year, and by 2012 is projected to reach 4 billion
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