"Technically, China could bring in the system to guide our young people," said
Zhang Meimei, director of the research center on the sex education at Capital
Normal University.
Zhang, according to The China Daily, claims that some 370 million sexually
explicit Web sites put the country's 20 million Internet users under the age of
18 at risk.
Zhang, who has studied sex education for 16 years, said Web sites should cater
to the needs of juveniles and improve their environment because "it is
impossible to block all the unhealthy information on the Internet."
"Information on these sites plays a key role in crimes involved with sex", she
said, adding the prime task is to help young people improve their ability to
judge what is right, and to control themselves when reading unhealthy content,"
Ministry of Public Security spokesman Wu Heping says as much as 80 percent of
juvenile delinquency were caused by juveniles' exposure to sexually explicit
Web sites all over the world.
China has the second largest Internet users of 144 million, only behind the
United States.
China has recently launched a campaign to clean up the Internet. Law
enforcement departments found and deleted over 60,000 posts and ordered the
closure of more than 2,000 sites.
