China is in no mood to call off its plan to force every computer in the country to run controversial internet filtering software, commonly known as "Green Dam" from July 1.

Despite of claims that China had decided to abandon "Green Dam", Officials at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that they would go ahead with plans to make the software compulsory.

According to China, the software is needed to protect children from pornographic and violent images.

This move of the China has confirmed that the row over China's Internet controls will not go away gently.

Critics are of the view that the filtering software, sold by Jinhui Computer System Engineering Co., is technically faulty and China's govt. could use it to spy on Internet users and to obstruct other sites that Beijing considers politically offensive.

Earlier, U.S. officials had asked Beijing to think over the compulsory software plan again.

Speaking on the issue, a U.S. official said, "We hope that China will look at the broad array of concerns that the Green Dam mandate has prompted from its own citizens, from global PC companies, and from other governments, and revoke this measure."  

China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Centre said that Google China's website has not installed filters to block pornography in accordance with the laws and regulations of their nation.

On the other hand, Google said that it has agreed to take every step to filter out pornographic or explicit material.

It should be noted here that Google enjoys only 27.8% of all searches in China. Its local rival Baidu, enjoys 62.2% of the market.

Moreover, Solid Oak, an American software company has claimed that some of the codes used in the formation of Green Dam are stolen from its cybernanny products.