Casino News: Chinese authorities Issues restriction on opening new Cyber Cafes

According to a news report from the France Press, the Chinese government will not permit any more cyber cafés to open in 2007. This step is taken by the communist rulers in China hoping to keep the over increasing influence of the Internet under control. Therefore, there will not be any more license approval for Cyber Cafés in China in the current year.

14 members of the central government authorities have issued this new notice, reports official news agency of China, Xinhua.

This news agency also reports that, around 113000 Cyber Cafes are operating in China. This official statistics was obtained from the ministry of information industry.

China experienced a drastic rise in Internet population in the last couple of years. There was a 23.4 % rise in the previous year and the total Internet population was around 137 million. Therefore, the number of Internet cafes also increased along with the growing Internet population. China is expected to cross US Internet population of 210 million with in next two years.

Internet addiction has reached an alarming stage in China. Xinhua reports that recent notice has been issued to tackle this problem.

China's Communist Party has also made it clear that they are considering Internet addiction as a threat. There should be a fixed level of control on it. President Hu Jintao called on the party to "purify the Internet environment” in a speech in January, according to a previous InfoPowa report.

However the President also said in comments carried by the state-run press,” Whether we can cope with the Internet is a matter that affects the development of socialist culture, the security of information, and the stability of the state”.