A recent survey by China Youth Daily found that 60 percent of respondents spend a daily average of more than an hour     1    (watch) short videos, with 11 percent spending three hours or more on     2    (they). Of the 2,017 total respondents, 74.2 percent said     3    (reason) time management is necessary     4    (avoid) excessive viewing of short videos.

Short videos can be addictive     5    social media platforms keep recommending relevant content once a video ends, said Yang Binyan,    6    is a researcher with the Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She     7    (add) that short videos, often showing fragments from day-to-day life, can induce (诱导) a feeling of social connectedness in viewers.

    8     total of 73.7 percent of those surveyed said netizens (网虫) should take part in more offline     9     (activity), including outdoor ones, to avoid overindulgence in short videos, while 50.8% suggest such platforms set up an anti-addiction system.

The number of China’s online short video users reached 873 million by the end of 2020, accounting    10     88 percent of total internet users.