According to a report from sina, the Chinese government is planning to impose heavy restrictions on the gaming industry.
Various outlets including Vice, Polygon and BBC have stated that this action comes after multiple Hong Kong protesters used the popular Nintendo Switch game, Animal Crossing to criticize President Xi Jinping and the government of Hong Kong to propagate the 'Free Hong Kong' movement.
Other Chinese citizens also began posting similar incidents that they captured inside the game.
The Proposed New Chinese Laws
How Will This Affect Dota 2?
The changes imposed will not affect Dota 2 too drastically, considering the fact that most of the Chinese Dota 2 community is already playing in the Perfect World servers, isolated from the rest of the world.
However, there are still some issues that might crop up due to these new restrictions.
Earlier last year, reports of China imposing an online curfew for gamers under 18 and a restriction of the maximum amount of money/time they can spend on a video game per day also surfaced. These restrictions have also been included in the proposed memo.
AFK Gaming has not been able to independently verify these claims. This article has been put together using games.sina.com.cn as a source via Google translate and /u/HeresiarchQin's translation of it on /r/pcgaming.