Authorities in a county in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality have suspended a local television channel and vowed a thorough investigation after the station broadcasted several minutes of pornographic video clips.

On the evening of July 7, erotic pornographic video clips appeared on a television channel run by the station of the Youyang Tujia and Miao autonomous county in Chongqing, according to a statement from the local government information office.

After the incident, the local government held an emergency meeting, and the TV station suspended the channel, the statement said.