Chinese telecom operator China Mobile announced the formal launch of a new Internet information security operating center in Luoyang, provincial capital of Henan.

Information from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is that in 2009 a total number of 784.04 billion mobile short messages were sent in China, a year-on-year increase of 8.4%, with an average of 2.1 billion sent daily.

China's Ministry of Education says that the networks of all China's schools shall be subject to monitoring and education departments at each level shall conduct regular checkups on these networks and guide the schools in installing green online filtering software to remove bad information.

In response to previous media reports that Chinese telecom operators will terminate mobile phone numbers involved in sending pornographic shorts messages, China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom all said it is not entirely true.

To coordinate with the special campaign jointly launched by China's nine government departments to fight Internet and mobile phone pornography, China Mobile Shanghai branch has implemented several powerful measures in which mobile phone numbers can be terminated if users are found sexting each other.

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China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Centre has exposed 11 Internet access service providers that provide service to websites spreading pornographic and vulgar information.

News from China Internet Network Information Center is that CNNIC has published an online complaint reporting service to encourage Internet users to report issues related to bad domain names in an effort to purify the online environment for teenagers in China.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has announced that it will cooperate with other related departments to accelerate the legislation for a mobile phone real-name system in 2010.

According to China Internet Network Information Center, the national domain name complaint center in China, by 8:00 on December 14, 2009, it had closed and revoked registrations of 699 Chinese website domain names that involved pornography.

It takes guts to be the first to admit a failure, and Chinese wireless value-added services firm KongZhong Corporation has now become the first U.S.-listed mobile firm from China to admit an expected downturn caused by last week's suspension of telecommunications billing.

Rectification of Internet audio-visual services in China has been raised to a new level and more than 530 Internet video service providers in China, including well-known BitTorrent-based download service providers like Btchina.net, have been shut down for "irregular operations".

Seven search engine service providers from China have jointly signed a self-discipline compact in Beijing.

In an effort to fight mobile pornography, Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has announced that it suspended all of its WAP service partners' ability to charge for services as of November 30, 2009. This applies to all of its WAP wireless value-added service partners in China, regardless of a partner's propensity to disseminate pornography.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has announced plans to launch five measures to fight pornographic content on the mobile Internet.