China's National Office Against Pornography and Illegal Publication, the General Administration of Press and Publication, the National Copyright Administration of China and China Central Television have jointly initiated the 2010 Green Bookmark intellectual property rights initiative in Beijing.

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 Internet Illegal Information Reporting Centre has reported that six Internet access providers were giving users access to websites that contained pornographic and vulgar content.

The Ministry of Health of China has published the "Regulation on Internet Medical and Health Information Service Management", which states that websites are prohibited to spread pornographic contents under the guise of sexual research or education.

China Central Television has exposed in its news and Focus Report programs that the website for Google China contains links to a large number of websites hosting pornographic and vulgar content.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the Chinese government hopes to pre-install web censoring software in PCs sold in China after July 1 to block some banned websites.

China's General Administration of Press and Publication has published a list of four video companies that have been punished for providing vulgar Internet content.

Chinese webgame Rexue Sanguo has select Uuyx.com as its new official operator, because its former operator Hangzhou Legang Technology was closed by the Chinese government at the beginning of March for promotion of pornography.

Chinese Internet portal NetEase.com (NTES) has released its 2008 China Internet Communication Report which summarizes the hot topics being searched and discussed on the Internet and Chinese blogosphere.

The China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Centre has published a list of the second batch of websites which provide "vulgar" Internet content.

The Chinese instant messaging provider Tencent has announced on its official bulletin board forum that it temporarily closed its QQ chat room from January 8, 2009.

Seven Chinese government departments held a teleconference in Beijing today and announced that they would start a nationwide campaign to fight websites that spread pornography and vulgarity on the Chinese Internet.

The United Nations Development Programme and Yahoo China have partnered to increase access to HIV and AIDS information for Chinese Internet users by supplying urgent health information for users who are searching for sex-related information.

China's first Diagnostic Criterion of Internet Addiction has recently passed the expert appraisal stage and in the criterion, game addiction is formally defined as the diagnostic area of mental illness.