Push for real IDs to expand

Program aims to ensure safer online environment, halt spread of rumors

The use of real identities online will continue to be promoted in order to ensure a safer online environment, according to the Cyberspace Administration of China.

The authority is to make more efforts to enforce the real-identity system in some other online industries after it asked users of instant messaging tools to provide real names last year, Xu Feng, director of the authority's mobile network management bureau, said on Tuesday.