Reports of harmful material online mostly involve sex

The monthly number of reports of harmful online material received by China's cyberspace watchdog broke 1 million for the first time in May, and sexually oriented material was the No 1 offender.

The Cyberspace Administration's Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center received 1.75 million reports from the public in May, and it has taken steps, including account closures, in more than 1.22 million instances.

According to the administration, 834,000 reports related to sexual material - more than 58 percent of all reports - followed by politics and fraudulent reports.