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    Can E-Sports Truly Be Regarded as a Profession?

    Jul 30, 2020 5 minutes
    Copyedited by Laurence Coulton

    Education authorities and universities recently released a document on employment data for this year’s college graduates. One striking point in the data was that those engaged in e-sports, online shopping and other kinds of new businesses were considered employed. Traditionally, e-sports and video games have been looked down upon, even despised by parents, who blame them for distracting their children from books.

    However, with the rapid development of the Internet, online games are growing into a new profession. Nowadays, there are e-sports programs at universities, and there is a huge demand for gamers on the market. More importantly, e-sports athletes and operators, recognized by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security as new professional in April 2019, earn no less than those working in conventional sectors, and sometimes much more than the

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