Including video files, audio files, electronic publications, pictures, articles, short messages and other Internet, mobile communication terminal electronic information and telephone station voice information.

Scientific works about human physiology and medical knowledge are not obscene articles. Literary and artistic works with artistic value containing pornographic content are not regarded as obscene articles.

Extended data:

Obscene articles poison people's hearts, induce crimes and do great harm. In order to protect the physical and mental health of the broad masses of people, especially teenagers, maintain social order and ensure the smooth progress of socialist modernization, all kinds of obscene articles must be strictly prohibited. To this end, the following provisions are made:

First, all kinds of obscene articles, whether for profit or not, must be strictly prohibited from importing, making (including copying), selling and spreading.

2. The scope of banning obscene articles is: video tapes, audio tapes, movies, TV films, slides, photos, pictures, books, newspapers, manuscripts, toys and articles printed with such pictures, as well as obscene drugs and articles.