Chinese authorities are planning to introduce a rating system to its 140,000 Internet cafes in a bid to improve service.
中国政府计划对国内14万家引入评级系统以提高其服务质量。
The cafes will be rated on
sanitation1, percentage of oxygen in the air and handling of garbage, according to a statement by the Internet Access Service Association on Thursday.
Only
licensed2 cafes that have no marks on their records will be
eligible3 for the rating system.
The
Ministry4 of Culture, which is working with the association, said checks will be carried out according to the rating results.
The association said that some 117 million people accessed the Internet at cafes in 2014. The
sector5 recorded
earnings6 of 57 billion yuan (about 9.2 billion U.S.dollars) in 2014, an increase of 9.6 percent year on year, ending four years of
consecutive7 drops.