The Chinese government's latest anti-porn campaign on the Internet has opened new job opportunities in the country as thousands have already submitted their applications for the position of online sexual content appraiser in Internet firms, local media reported.

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More than 4,000 people have applied as appraiser of online sexual content starting mid-April, according to China Times and ahlife.com cited by Want China Times (WCT). The interest for the said position was triggered by the Chinese government's announcement of an intensified campaign against online pornography and obscenity.

Internet giants Baidu, Kingsoft, and Tencent are among the companies that have opened positions for online sexual content appraiser beginning mid-April. Out of the 4,000 applicants, 100 have already been slated for interviews, the report detailed.

The new career is open to men and women aged 20 to 35 years old and residing in Beijing. The job, which yields a yearly salary of US $32,000 (CNY200,000), involves quick identification of Internet content that violates the new obscenity rules, the report stated.

According to candidates who have undergone a written test for the job, their knowledge about adult video stars and common sexual content terminologies around the world were assessed. The test also looked at their ability to distinguish between sexual content in music and sexual text content, Want China Times reported.

China has ordered local game producers and web portals to remove pornographic or sexually suggestive content from their websites. These would include young women or even female cartoon characters wearing sleeveless blouses, short pants, or bikinis, the report detailed.

Depiction of physical contact between opposite-gender online game characters is not part of the prohibited content, the report added.

The video sharing platforms of Sina and Sohu were closed down after two original video series from Sohu were classified as pornographic. The closure pulled down China's web traffic by 20%, WCT stated.

Foreign TV shows being broadcast in China have also been affected by the crackdown. Several European and American TV dramas have been pulled out and two Japanese adult video stars' microblog accounts have become inaccessible at some times, the media firm said.