As part of the anti-pornography and anti-gambling campaign that Beijing rolled out in April to cleanse the country's internet, authorities arrested and detained more than 30,000 people in a span of two months.

According to Xinhua, the most recent arrests involved 3,014 people in Guangdong, reports the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department, which added that 8,000 plus are in criminal detention as of December 15.

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On November 24, authorities arrested members of an online gambling group in Huizhou City and confiscated from them 30 million yuan (US$4.82 million).

Mainland China has banned gambling since 1949, but it allows lottery.

On the first week of December, authorities published the names of internet companies in China that are involved in pornography and gambling and warned that it would slap them fines.

The Ministry of Culture said on its list as two companies that operate mobile game platforms and nine that are suspected of disseminating pornography.

Other than porn and gambling, the ministry also called the attention of 21 websites that feature bloody, terror and violent content on their comic and animated products.

The companies that have breached the ministry's rules would be fined. The name of the firms and their fines would later be published, said Liu Qiang, the deputy director of the ministry's market department.

Liu added that the ministry would create a blacklist of consistent rules violators and would impose on them larger penalties.

Despite strict censorship in China, lewd materials are still available both online, but surreptitiously, and on the blackmarket.

Proof of this is that China is on PornHub's newly released interactive maps that chart the sexual stamina of porn viewers, and China topped the list with the Chinese porn watcher having an erection for 14 minutes and 34 seconds on the average, followed by Cubans at 6 minutes and 24 seconds.

By major cities, those from Shanghai could keep it up for 15 minutes and 58 seconds, followed by Beijing residents at 16 minutes and 29 seconds and Hong Kong residents at 11 minutes and 14 seconds, reports Shanghaiist.

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