Notice concerning Implementing the State Council “Regulations concerning Strictly Prohibiting Obscene Goods”

[85]GF No. 30

All provincial, autonomous region and municipal public security offices and bureaus.

The “Regulations concerning Strictly Prohibiting Obscene Goods” promulgated by the State Council on 17 April 1985 is an important administrative regulation protecting the popular masses from receiving spiritual opium and poison, all localities’ public security organs must earnestly implement them, determinedly attack criminal activities of smuggling, producing, selling and organizing the dissemination of obscene products, and ruthlessly stop these evil ways. Hereby, the relevant matters concerning public security organs’ implementation of this State Council regulation are notified as follows:

Regulations Concerning Prohibiting Obscene Goods

(Promulgated on 17 April 1985)

Obscene goods poison the people’s thoughts, bring out criminality and are extremely dangerous. In order to protect the bodily and mental health of the wide masses, especially the youth, safeguard social order, guarantee the smooth progress of the construction of socialist modernization, all sorts of obscene goods must be strictly prohibited. For this purpose, the following Regulations are made: