--- description: ByteDance introduced a TikTok-style service for China’s youth, Xiao Qu Xing, that sets strict controls on daily usage after Beijing stepped up efforts to protect minors. title: ByteDance’s New TikTok for Kids in China Limits Access to 40 Minutes a Day image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcbc1e98a79447ff/698a1d00096a9425626abab2/tiktok-Douyin.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [China](/tag/china/) ## China Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # ByteDance’s New TikTok for Kids in China Limits Access to 40 Minutes a Day by [Zheping Huang/Bloomberg](/author/bloomberg/) ## Zheping Huang/Bloomberg Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 20, 2021 4:11 AM CUT  The download page for ByteDance's Douyin application on a smartphone arranged in Beijing, China, on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. The download page for ByteDance's Douyin application on a smartphone arranged in Beijing, China, on Wednesday, May 5, 2021.Yan Cong–Bloomberg/Getty Images by [Zheping Huang/Bloomberg](/author/bloomberg/) ## Zheping Huang/Bloomberg Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 20, 2021 4:11 AM CUT ByteDance introduced a TikTok-style service for China’s youth that sets strict controls on daily usage after Beijing stepped up efforts to protect minors from the internet’s risks. The app, called Xiao Qu Xing or “Little Fun Star,” offers a personalized feed of short videos in areas ranging from science to literature and art history. Users are allowed to like clips but not upload or share them, while parents can adjust the usage time for their kids to at most 40 minutes per day. China’s government is seeking to implement [far-reaching rules](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/china-plans-control-of-tech-algorithms-u-s-can-only-dream-of "undefined") on the algorithms tech companies use to recommend videos and other content, while top officials and state media alike have trained their sights on the amount of time teenagers spend on smartphones. Regulators slashed kids’ online gaming time to three hours per week starting this month, triggering concerns that similar rules will be extended to other digital content. Douyin, TikTok’s Chinese twin, last week [upgraded](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/zp43DhzwanDApoPCIgCvJQ "undefined") its youth mode to limit daily usage time to a maximum of 40 minutes for those aged under 14, while banning them from accessing the app from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Xiao Qu Xing was created by ByteDance’s education arm, which earlier this year [shut down](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-05/bytedance-lays-off-hundreds-after-china-s-education-crackdown "undefined") a significant part of its operations after Beijing cracked down on the $100 billion after-school tutoring industry. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6099618/bytedance-tiktok-china-children/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6099618/bytedance-tiktok-china-children/"},"headline":"ByteDance’s New TikTok for Kids in China Limits Access to 40 Minutes a Day","datePublished":"2021-09-20T04:11:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:52:29.401Z","description":"Douyin, TikTok’s Chinese twin, had already upgraded its youth mode to limit daily usage to 40 minutes for users under 14","url":"https://time.com/6099618/bytedance-tiktok-china-children/","keywords":["China","Tech","wire","overnight","biztech2030"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcbc1e98a79447ff/698a1d00096a9425626abab2/tiktok-Douyin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Zheping Huang/Bloomberg"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcbc1e98a79447ff/698a1d00096a9425626abab2/tiktok-Douyin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ByteDance Ltd.'s Douyin App As TikTok Owner Challenges Alibaba in E-Commerce Ahead of IPO","caption":"ByteDance Ltd.'s Douyin App As TikTok Owner Challenges Alibaba in E-Commerce Ahead of IPO","creditText":"Yan Cong–Bloomberg/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/china/","name":"China"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6099618/bytedance-tiktok-china-children/","name":"ByteDance’s New TikTok for Kids in China Limits Access to 40 Minutes a Day"}}]}] ```