How do mobile phones attract children, and how do they help left-behind children in rural areas move their eyes to a wider space outside the screen?
In the past year, Li Li, a deputy to the National People's Congress and an employee of Hubei Daye Nonferrous Metals Group Holdings Co., Ltd., has been paying attention to these issues.
This year's National Two Sessions, she brought a "Recommendations on the Source Control of the "Rural Left-behind Children Addicted to Mobile Phones" phenomenon.
As a disabled person, Li Li pays special attention to disadvantaged groups. She often appears at research sites with a cane in one hand and a notebook in the other.
Li Li observed that in some rural primary and secondary schools, schools and teachers need to "match wits and courage" with students on the issue of mobile phones; once the holidays are over, the ancestors who stay at home lack management awareness and ability, and some children "stare at their mobile phones from morning to night" "Never leave your hand", stay up late or stay up all night watching short videos or playing games.
"Smartphones and wireless networks are now so popular in rural areas. In addition to paying attention to and caring for left-behind children in rural areas, whether they have enough food, clothing, and safety during holidays, the phenomenon of left-behind children in rural areas being addicted to mobile phones needs to be dealt with urgently," Li Li said.
"Children's addiction to mobile phones will not only lead to an increase in myopia rates and a decline in physical fitness, but will also weaken students' ambition and lose interest in academic tasks that require patience and complex logical thinking." Regarding these negative effects, Li Li concluded: When the children around them When they start using mobile phones to play games or socialize, the group demonstrations from their peers have also led to "playing with mobile phones" becoming a "new trend" among the current left-behind children. There are even "game masters" who are more sought after than "top academics" Phenomenon.
Some misconceptions promoted on the Internet will also subtly affect the "three views" of left-behind children.
Since 2020, a number of policies and measures have been promulgated and implemented: the newly revised "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Minors" has a special chapter on "Internet Protection"; the Ministry of Education has introduced "five-level protection" for mobile phones, sleep, homework, reading materials, and physical fitness. "Item Management" document; the "Double Reduction" document issued by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council clearly stated that "guiding students to prevent Internet addiction"; the National Press and Publication Administration issued the "strictest new regulations on online games", clearly requiring all game manufacturers One-hour service can only be provided to minors from 20:00 to 21:00 on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays.
Despite this, Li Li found in her research that children still have multiple ways to crack the "underage mode": they either use the accounts of their parents or other adults, buy accounts online, or borrow adult ID cards to crack the accounts.
In this regard, she suggested further optimizing the “real-name registration and anti-addiction system” in areas such as “face recognition”.
Through the "three-in-one" combination of registered account, ID card and personal face, online users can be accurately identified to prevent minors from participating in mobile games by using adult accounts.
For minors' accounts, game developers should make refined classification designs in terms of game time, game rules and competitive modes, such as limiting the number of participants in "team battle mode", prohibiting "same city mode" competitive tracks, etc., to eliminate group thugs space to swim.
In response to some game developers using big data to specially design "addictive" links for minors in the game process, Li Li believes that relevant departments should effectively identify and stop game software development companies' "addictive designs" for children. , plugging the "underage mode" cracking loophole.
Regarding short videos, live broadcasts, social software, online novels, etc. that left-behind children are easily addicted to, Li Li suggested that “further legislation and policies should be introduced to expand the scope of supervision and strengthen the content review responsibilities of Internet companies.”
In her view, the government should make active intervention to prevent severe mobile phone addiction a top priority in caring for and serving left-behind children.
On the basis of existing policies, regulatory authorities should further implement "source governance". At the same time, schools, families, and society need to cooperate to create a safe and healthy growth space for left-behind children.
China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Ma Yuping Source: China Youth Daily