Chinese authorities continue with the government's intensified campaign against online pornography, with the Zhejiang Province shutting down at least 881 websites for lewd content, the Xinhua news agency has reported.

From January to October of this year, the anti-pornography authority of Zhejiang province took down from the Internet 16,500 items that were considered as lewd or pornographic.

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Zhejiang's anti-pornography and anti-illegal publications office director Huang Baiqing told the official Xinhua news agency that the office had also blocked more than 1 million items that had lewd content.

During the 10-month operation, authorities were able to block 1,021 websites that operate outside China due to pornographic content. It was, however, not clear what the punishments were for sites that had pornographic content aside from shutting them off the web.

The Chinese government has intensified its campaign against online pornography to protect the Chinese Internet users, which is estimated to be about 650 million 2015.

Aside from going after small, little-known websites, China's anti-pornography authorities have also suspended operations of major websites when investigators found a number of content that were considered lewd.

So far this year, the National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications has already taken down or confiscated 435,000 illegal websites and books that were deemed pornographic.

In an official statement, the national office said all of the websites that were taken down carried pornographic content. It, however, did not provide details on the confiscation of books that allegedly contained materials that were not fit for children.

Early this year, authorities in Gansu Province suspended the deputy head of local transport bureau after he was caught watching pornographic movies while at work.

The report was based on an undercover investigation conducted by reporters. The investigation also discovered more than 200 porn movies on the official's computer hard disk.

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