Fifth-grade students at Hangzhou Television Hope Primary School enjoy their new school and the many educational, social and technological benefits that come with it. Photo by Emily Mitis

According to the 2010 National Population Census of China, 19.3 percent of the world’s population are Chinese citizens. Due to China’s rapid rise on the global economic stage the relationship between the United States and China has become increasingly important to the future of both countries in recent years. So what do China’s 1.4 billion people think about Americans?

Current social tensions weighing down on the young in China—whether it is pressure from parents to succeed, worry of getting or keeping a job in a changing market, or stress of surviving in a quickly inflating economy—have created the need to escape that has manifested itself in what medical experts and those in the concerned Chinese government call Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD).