Inside A Chinese Internet Addiction Boot Camp

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In an effort to cure the countrys Internet addiction, China is looking towards its kids, and sending some of them to a military-style boot camp to wean them off their online addictions. No, seriously.

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There are as many as 250 Internet addiction camps throughout the country. Each center uses military instruction to inculcate habits of discipline.

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Once inside, these internet-addicted kids are kept behind bars and guarded by around-the-clock soldiers.

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Students are given military-style punishments at the Internet-free boot camps.

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A nurse distributes medicine at the Daxing centre.

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Kids are forced to clean, wash, cook meals, and take part in military-style drills during the four to eight-month-long boot camps. Classes also cover music and traditional Chinese lion dancingbasically anything away from the computer.

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An instructor talks to female students in their dormitory.

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Some Internet boot camps also take part in research projects and scan the brains of addicts.

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Theres no clear indicator of what constitutes an Internet addict in China, but if we were all to reveal how much time we spend on the net, perhaps wed all need to attend one of these boot camps, too.

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Parents usually pay twice the average Beijing monthly salaryaround 1,700to send their kids to places like these.

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Students take part in music class during an Internet-free few months.

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A teacher talks to an instructor through the window of a door at the Qide Education Centre.

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Students clean and wash during their months away from home.

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Therapists believe that a childs Internet addiction arises out of loneliness or Chinas extremely competitive culture. That seems legit.

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Treatment also includes hours of therapy. And medication is given out in an effort to aid the kids in the program.

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A student who completed a six-month course bows to the head teacher.

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Students wave as a former Internet addict goes home.