China's top internet official has warned that Google

China's top internet official has warned that Google will "pay the consequences" if it continues to go adjoin Chinese law.

Google appear in January that it would no best accede with China's internet censorship laws.

It warned that it may shut down google.cn because of censorship and a hacking advance on the portal.

Minister of Industry and Advice Technology Li Yizhong was speaking at China's anniversary legislation session.

"We charge to bottle our nation's interest, our people's interest, we cannot be airy with any advice that will could cause abuse to the adherence of our society, to our system, and to the bloom of our under-age adolescent people," he said.

"So, of course, what needs to be shut down will be shut down, what needs to be blocked will be blocked."

'Up to them'

Google began operations in China in 2006 to boundless criticism. While abounding argued Google was complicit in the censorship imposed by Chinese government, Google insisted it was about confined the accessible absorption even admitting it was capacity censored results.

Relations amid China and Google cooled in January afterwards what Google declared as a adult cyber advance in which the webmail accounts of Chinese animal rights activists were targeted.

Since then, the close has been in talks with Chinese admiral about how to accommodate an unfiltered account but still accept aural the law. Google arch controlling Eric Schmidt said this anniversary that he hoped the after-effects of those consultations would be appear soon.

Mr Li said that whether the close quits China or not is "up to them", adage the internet would curl in China regardless.

"I achievement that Google will accept and account the Chinese government's laws and regulations," he said.

"But, if you abandon Chinese laws and regulations... it agency that you are unfriendly, irresponsible, and you will accept to pay the consequences."

Google is a abroad additional in seek engine stakes in China, captivation beneath than a third of the market; battling Baidu has about 60%.