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China has blocked 244 new pornographic websites last week, the official agency Xinhua said, bringing the total number of sites closed in a campaign against the content "vulgar" to over 700.


Many of the affected sites were not registered and violated the laws on sexual content distribution, said the report.


China promised last week that the campaign, according to a Xinhua plans last month, would not be a "storm in a glass of water." Has been extended to cover content in mobile games, novels and radio programs online.


Google, Baidu and other major firms have also received a public reprimand for not being quick enough to erase the contents of affected sites and some blogs have been closed for posting "politically damaging information."


The offensive of the Internet has been described by analysts as another step in the battle of the Communist Party to silence dissent in a year of sensitive dates such as the 20th anniversary of the bloody government repression against pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.