According to the website of the Ministry of Culture, the ministry has just published a white book on the Chinese online games market and will soon promulgate and enact a new regulation on the management of the sector.

Wang Yong, the director of China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, has disclosed to local media that the quality department will improve its credit evaluation and information release system in 2010 to blacklist companies that violate quality laws.

The Department of Human Resources and Social Security of Shanxi Province has announced that the Shanxi Province Labor Contract Regulations have gained the approval of Shanxi Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee, and will be brought into effect from January 1, 2010.

According to Shanghai Information Services Association, Shanghai will soon introduce a computer game service rule to regulate the online games market and ensure the interests of both the game players and the game operators.

Beijing is revising its smoking-ban regulations and will raise the value of fines imposed on smokers who smoke in public places.

Su Zhi, the deputy director of the Bureau of Food Safety Coordination and Health Supervision of China's Ministry of Health, has disclosed to local media that China will initiate a two-year campaign on food safety and food additives.

The General Administration of Press and Publication of China will soon fix a new measure to regulate the cooperation between Chinese and foreign online games service providers and the new measure may focus on punishing foreign game operators who adopt arbitrary rules during the cooperation with their Chinese partners.