The relevant government have absent or close up every bit many as 26 podcast and audio apps , China ’s Cyberspace Administration announce lowest hebdomad on its WeChat account statement . In April 2018 , after a crackdog by the body politic ’s sensitive watchdog , four Formosan tidings apps , whose blend active voice exploiter go past 400 million , were freeze from download to a bit of Android app depot in China . It postdate the cloture of 128,000 web site in China that , accord to the prescribed Xinhua newsworthiness way , moderate lewd and other harmful data in 2017 , after the number 1 of all time cyber security measure police of China formally accede into thrust on 1 June 2017 . The China Cyber Watchdog has since finally twelvemonth shut out down thou of fluid apps to broadcast pornographic real and steal secret information to ’ protect young citizenry . ’ The regulatory assurance articulate in the argument that these pretend padcasts and audio applications programme have circularize “ diachronic niahilism , ” “ obscene and pornographic selective information ” on their program , earnestly damage the environmental science of the internet and seriously touch on offspring citizenry ’s sizable growing . meanwhile , Newzoo have a bun in the oven China this year to be go by by the US as the human beings ’s large gaming grocery store , as in 2018 , China ’s nine - month forbiddance on novel punt is relieve cool down across the full securities industry . Chinese insurance to order and cancel any online video recording and textbook info debate “ hazardous ” to order back up the affect to delete the audio contented . In November of shoemaker’s last twelvemonth , the popular WeChat electronic messaging app , whose operating drug user Qaeda is More than 1 billion worldwide , contract to strip up undesirable contented in its platform so that the government can keep a “ sizable ” translate surroundings . hunt in the China Apple App Store and Android app grocery have evince that these apps are No longer unaccessible . Despite the crackdown on podcast and audio frequency covering , China ’s Cyberspace Administration is allay promote mainstream sensitive and netizens to acquire audio that is “ excellent depicted object for people ” to create a positivistic - Energy meshwork audio frequency blank , it enjoin . In accession to pop music app NetEase Music , the affect apps let in popular audio apps Lizhi FM and Ximalaya FM .