China's Ministry of Culture has announced a list of Internet companies, including Tencent and Baidu, that it has accused of spreading pornography and gambling.

Mobile game platforms run by Tencent and Baidu, as well as nine other  Internet companies, were allegedly involved in pornography, gambling and violence, according to a ministry statement, reports state news agency Xinhua.

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The ministry also criticized comic and animated products on 21 websites provided by companies including China Telecom for containing gory, violent content.

Liu Qiang, a deputy director in the market department of the ministry, said that the offending companies will be fined, but that the amounts of fines have not yet been released. Liu also said that the ministry will create a blacklist of companies that repeatedly break rules and impose stricter punishments on them.

"We hope that major companies can shoulder their due social responsibilities and offer healthy, quality, cultural products," Liu said.

Last month, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) started a nationwide crackdown on online videos that contain pornography, violence and other subjects the government has deemed harmful.

The campaign will run until the end of December, and is intended to clean up content, such as "pornography, violence, terror and rumors, in online videos," it was announced at a joint press conference held by the CAC, and the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television.

Five key Internet areas are the focus of the campaign, including online storage services, and shared video links on social networks and IM platforms, such as Weibo and WeChat. The other three areas are unlicensed video streaming websites, smart TVs and video terminals.

China's largest Internet-related companies have agreed to cooperate with the government's crackdown, as 29 websites have promised to better manage the comments of their users.

They also "promise to and sincerely ask all users to consciously abide by the 'seven bottom lines' -- law and rules, socialist systems, national interests, citizen's legitimate rights, social public order, morality and authenticity of information -- when posting."

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