The Xinhua news agency has reported that Deputy Minister of Public Security Zhang Xinfeng announced the government will continue the fight next month, this time focusing on obscene text messages and school bulletin boards distributing pornographic material.
"We strongly condemn website hosts for making 'unlawful' money by distributing pornographic information," Vice Minister of Education Li Weihong said. "Student netizens are easily influenced and perverted by such information as they are still in their formative years and do not have a solid grip on the right values."
Chinese officials blamed a recent surge in youth crime to online pornography. A spokesman said that 80 percent of "arrested youth criminals" were "seduced by the Internet."
It has been reported that nearly half of China's 23 million Internet surfers visit adult websites.
Weihong said a section of the Ministry's website has been formed for users to report campus websites violating anti-obscenity rules, and has urged college professors to "get to know the mentality of today's students from the [Internet]."
In the past month, Chinese authorities have filtered 90,000 sites featuring pornographic content. Xinfeng said that more than 90 percent of the adult sites available to the Chinese public are from abroad.
