Curtain pulled over thousands of porn websites

China had shut down 16,000 more websites that were found as of Feb 10 to contain lewd or pornographic content during the nation's latest crackdown.

Since the crackdown began last December, more than 850,000 pictures and 1.3 million messages with lewd or pornographic content were deleted, according to statistics from the International Communication Office of the CPC Central Committee.

More than 30 online novels and 15 mobile phone games were also halted.