Chinanews.com, Beijing, March 3rd: Yang Rong, deputy to the National People's Congress: Standardize the governance of emerging businesses such as e-sports hotels and protect minors

  Chinanews reporter Li Tingyao

  In recent years, emerging business formats such as e-sports hotels, escape rooms, script killings, and on-demand theaters have been favored by consumers including minors, but hidden risks and governance loopholes also affect public interests and the healthy growth of minors .

Yang Rong, a deputy to the National People's Congress and deputy director of the Sanqiao Police Station of the Xinghualing Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, suggested that the management of emerging businesses such as e-sports hotels should be regulated to protect the healthy growth of minors.

  As a grassroots people's congress representative, Yang Rong has been working as a community policeman in Jingangli Community, Xinghualing District, Taiyuan City since she joined the work in 1992.

She took root in the community and spent more than 30 springs, summers, autumns and winters with residents day and night.

Since she was elected as a representative of the 13th National People's Congress in 2018, she has led the proposal of 5 proposals and 28 proposals, including the proposal on the formulation of the "Family Education Promotion Law of the People's Republic of China" and the "Proposal on Vigorously Promoting Rural Folk Culture". "Suggestions" and "Suggestions on Continuing to Severely Crack Down on Cybercrime in accordance with the Law and Strengthen the Judicial Protection of Personal Information" were adopted and implemented.

  This year, Yang Rong put forward relevant suggestions around regulating the governance of emerging business formats such as e-sports hotels.

  "The protection of minors is more prominent in emerging business fields, and there is a lack of special protection for minors." Yang Rong believes that the problem of irregular business behavior exists to varying degrees.

For example, some e-sports hotels have problems such as accepting minors to surf the Internet without restriction, failing to truthfully register the identity information of the occupants, mixing men and women, and selling cigarettes and alcohol to minors in violation of regulations, and have become "Internet cafe substitutes" to avoid regulatory risks.

  In addition, public security and fire hazards are more likely to occur in emerging business fields. The interior of on-demand theaters is generally divided into multiple small private rooms without monitoring and sound insulation. Many escape rooms are set up in commercial and residential buildings and comprehensive shopping malls.

At the same time, the quality of some content in emerging business fields is worrying. Some script killing business sites use bloody and violent content, involving superstition and even drug plots, which may have a negative impact on minors.

Data map: Room escape scene.

Photo by Li Tingyao

  "Industry ownership is not clear, industry norms are not perfect, legal regulations are not clear, and social attention is not enough, etc., resulting in the governance and supervision of emerging business formats not keeping up." Yang Rong introduced that e-sports hotels involve market supervision, public security, cultural tourism and other departments. , The overlapping of functions leads to unclear rights and responsibilities, making it difficult for relevant departments to fully perform their supervisory duties in accordance with the law.

As an emerging industry, e-sports hotels are currently managed by the hotel industry and are not defined as "Internet Internet service business premises".

  Yang Rong told reporters that Article 58 of the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Minors" sets strict restrictive regulations on the establishment and service of venues that are not suitable for minors. The place where adults play activities depends on whether it is in line with the interests of minors and whether it is conducive to the healthy growth of minors."

  For this reason, Yang Rong suggested that the legislature clearly list e-sports hotels and on-demand theaters as places that are not suitable for minors' activities, and include them in the scope of application of Article 58 of the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Minors". The special and priority protection of minors also helps to promote the prosperity and development of emerging industries in accordance with the law.

  At the same time, she suggested that the Office of the Leading Group for the Protection of Minors of the State Council take the lead in coordinating and determining the industry ownership and competent departments of emerging businesses such as e-sports hotels, strengthening governance and supervision, and forming a joint force for the protection of minors.

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