The young men that enter its doors are subjected to a strict military regime of exercise, medication and solitary confinement. Any kind of electronic gadgetry is completely banned.
Additionally, patients are frequently subjected psychiatric assessments and brain scans to make sure they stay on the straight and narrow.
The IATC has treated 6,000 patients since it opened in 2006 and claims to have "cured" 75%. Which means that, six months after their release, patients use the internet for fewer than six hours a day.
Internet addiction - as well as a broader attachment to electronic gadgets - is an issue affecting 24 million of China's 632 million internet users according to the country's government.
Many of them are young men who are addicted to playing massive multiplayer online games for hours at a time.
The founder of the IATC facility, a doctor and colonel in China's People's Liberation Army, says that 90% of patients come with clinical depression as a result of spending up to 14 hours a day online.
Not only is there a high demand for places at the brutal treatment centre, but it's expensive to attend as well.
It charges £1,000 per month which is more than twice what the average urban Chinese worker can expect to earn.
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