Eye on China's youth

Beijing has been on a drive to clean up the Internet to make sure that under-18s in China are better protected. It has ordered the country's technology giants, such as Tencent and Alibaba, to purge their platforms of soft pornography involving children and to increase efforts to prevent minors from becoming addicted to online gaming. State media outlets have also called out vendors that peddle electronic cigarettes to students. Earlier this month, Tencent, which runs the wildly popular game Honour Of Kings, promised regulators that it will further restrict how much time minors spend on video games. Tencent also runs WeChat, China's most popular social messaging app, which can be used to access Honour Of Kings. Prosecutors in Beijing had filed charges against Tencent for flouting child protection laws because WeChat's youth mode does not protect those aged under 18 well enough. China Correspondent Aw Cheng Wei looks at the three industries - online gaming, e-cigarettes and pornography - that Beijing has in its cross hairs.