Community Games and Mobile Games to be Supervised by the General Administration of Press and Publication of P. R. China

On July 28, 2010, at the China Digital Entertainment Summit Forum of Chinajoy 2010 sponsored by the General Administration of Press and Publication of P. R. China (hereinafter referred to the Publication Administration), Deputy Director of the Publication Administration, Sun Shoushan, made remarks during a speech that, online game industry is "an important component of China digital publishing and important content of the cultural development of online publishing".

He emphasized that the Publication Administration "is the only administrative authority for the prior approval and import approval of online games".

Sun Shoushan also pointed out that the Publication Administration's limits of supervision authority upon online games include products' prior approval, approval of imported game products, deepening the application of enthrallment-prevention system, and combating private servers and plug-ins.

As per his remarks, the Publication Administration will issue administrative rules for the approval of online games and examination standards for those games, specifying and regulating the approval of Internet publishing licenses within the scope of online game services and the approval rules and process of imported online games.

With respect to the new game forms and platforms such as mobile games, the Publication Administration will accelerate the research and development of corresponding enthrallment-prevention systems. In addition, according to the sources, after bringing SNS community games into the scope of prior approval, the Publication Administration, while speeding up the revision of approval details, has recently considered including mobile games into the supervised objects as well.

As revealed by Sun Shoushan, the Publication Administration will take the lead in promoting the "players' real-name authentication carried out by the cooperation between the National Citizen Identify Information Center and the online game enterprises" as soon as possible, and will supervise and urge game enterprises to perfect the inquiry system for parents.