China's General Administration of Press and Publication has threatened to shut down more than 120 websites offering pornographic fiction. Websites which fail to remove the content will be taken offline.

China continues to tighten control over its flourishing Internet industry and new regulations on online pornography have recently been introduced.

Late last year China cracked down on mobile websites offering pornography downloads and more recently it barred online game companies from using racy marketing tactics to attract users.

China is the world's largest Internet market by users with around 420 million surfers.

Source: China may shut porn fiction websites, The Independent, July 16, 2010

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