A senior Communist Party of China (CPC) leader has called for efforts to build a purified social and cultural environment to ensure the healthy growth of minors.

In a written instruction forwarded to a working conference on purifying the social and cultural environment, Li Changchun, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, said work priorities should be given to purifying the environment of Internet, Internet bars, screens, audios and campus surroundings.

The conference was held from Friday to Saturday.

Li said the spread of illegal and harmful information such as pornography and obscene contents should be firmly stopped.

All departments concerned should fully cooperate and people from all sectors of society should be mobilized to create a positive social and cultural environment that is helpful to the healthy growth of minors, he wrote.

Liu Yunshan, head of CPC Central Committee Publicity Department, stressed at the conference the importance of such activities as the current online anti-pornography crackdown campaign.

State Councilor Liu Yandong also attended the meeting.

(Xinhua News Agency February 22, 2009)