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Students receive a group punishment during a military-style close-order drill class at the Qide Education Center in Beijing February 19, 2014 (Reuters / Kim Kyung-Hoon)

Students receive a group punishment during a military-style close-order drill class at the Qide Education Center in Beijing February 19, 2014 (Reuters / Kim Kyung-Hoon)

Military style boot-camps are flourishing in China in order to break teenagers of their internet addiction. Some 250 camps are now functioning in the country alone – and the idea may spread.

“My parents wanted me to study at home all day, and I was not allowed to play outside,” one teenager, who gave only his surname, Wang, told Reuters. He said that resultantly he turned to the Internet to escape the competitive societal pressures.

“As I became addicted to the game, my school grades tumbled. But I gained another feeling of achievement by advancing to the next level in the game,” Wang said.

He admitted to once playing for more than three days in a row during which he slept for only one hour.

His problems resulted in his eventual admission to the Qide Education Center in Beijing.............