China shuts 1,800 porn sites

China has successfully shut down more than 1,800 pornographic Web sites in one year in a nation-wide campaign, the
state media reported on Saturday.

Since its debut on June 10 last year, the centre has received 143,000 reports on Web sites with pornographic or other illegal contents, director of the online reporting centre, Liu Zhengrong said.

About 67.5 per cent of the reports were related to Web sites with pornographic contents, while 4.4 per cent of them involved cults and 3.4 per cent were related to online graft, Liu said.

Thanks to the active reporting from the public, the centre has transferred 1,878 related reports to the public security and judicial departments, including 1,264 with pornographic contents and 307 with gambling information.

To encourage more reports from the public, the centre also issued a new rule to reward those who provide effective information, from 500 to 2,000 yuan (about $ 61 to 242), the report said.