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More efforts urged to crack down on illegal publications in 2005
January 28, 2005
Beijing - China will exert more efforts to crack down on pornography and
illegal publications in 2005, aiming to create a favorable cultural environment
for its reform and opening up and socialist modernization drive, a senior party
official said.
Addressing a tele-conference held here Friday, Liu Yunshan, head of the
Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Central Committee,
said in the campaign in 2005, top priority will be given to elimination of
illegal publications because these publications pose a serious threat to social
stability.
"To create a healthy environment for the young, we should relentlessly crack
down on books, cartoons, video-games with contents of violence, porn, and
superstitions and close down porn web-sites and sex phone stations," he said.
Liu, also member of the Political Bureau and the Secretariat ofCPC Central
Committee, said police should step up surveillance over shops around campus, at
airports and railway stations, and along commercial streets to clear the
selling or distribution of illegal publications.
"The Internet and short messages sent by mobile phones should also be closely
examined," he added.
In last July, China launched a nationwide campaign to clean up Internet porn
that are supposed to harm the nation's "young minds."
China has seized 229 million copies of illegal publications, closed down 2,966
illegal publishing houses and more than 40,000 stalls and shops that sell
illegal publications.
On Saturday, police announced national and regional hotlines toreport on cases
of illegal publications across the country.
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