“Unity is strength, our spirit is stronger than steel” . . . several dozen teenagers stand on a parade ground to chant communist slogans in unison before turning together to march to the canteen for lunch.
This is no military training camp, though. It is a clinic for young Internet addicts.
At China’s first such centre, teenagers spend a minimum of three months being weaned off their obsession with cyberspace. The Juvenile Psychological Growth Base can treat about 100 children at a time–barely scratching the surface in a country where 10 million children from among the 340 million Internet population are deemed to be addicts.
