Beijing, Mar 15 from www.ptinews.com – In its bid to cleanse the internet, China has shut down or blocked more than 140,000 mobile Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) porn sites in five months, an official here said.

Zhou Huilin, Deputy Director of the national office against pornographic and illegal publication said the move had “clearly cleansed the Internet environment.”

“In the next stage, we will target serious criminal activity related to porn mobile WAP sites with servers overseas, as many such sites were moving their servers overseas to avoid supervision,” official Xinhua news agency quoted Zhou as saying.

More than 150,000 items of lewd content had been deleted from or blocked on the Internet in Beijing during the campaign, and about 310,000 items had been deleted in coastal provinces of Guangdong and Jiangsu, according to Zhou.