Sun Anmin, vice major of the Beijing Municipal Government, spoke on a local radio program this week and said that Beijing would loosen the limits on Internet cafe' operation times and allow them to open after midnight.

Sun, who suggested that time limits should only be lifted from those cafes who have clean business records, said that this is a new measure approved by the State Council and will be implemented as a pilot project in Beijing.

Though the district cultural departments have not received official notice on the changes, Chinese netizens have been raving about the new policy in Chinese online chatrooms. As soon as the cultural departments receive word about the alterations, the new policy will be implemented.