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Games Console Ban Lifted 　　China’s State Council announced January 6 that foreign-funded enterprises are now allowed to produce and sell video game consoles in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone， marking the country’s formal lifting of a 13-year ban on the devices. 　　Enthusiasm for video games among Chinese consumers began at the end of the 1980s when Nintendo’s globally-popular Famicom console entered the Chinese market. This new form of entertainment soon had Chinese gamers hooked， with numerous domestic copycats of next-generation handheld consoles like Nintendo’s Game Boy quickly becoming a co