Recent studies have demonstrated that network community structure can significantly reduce the network transport efficiency. In this paper, the weakening community structure (WCS) strategy based on adding of edges that can effectively weaken the network community characteristics and improve the network transport efficiency is proposed. The WCS performance was validated by experiments, which were performed on pseudo-random network, scale-free artificial network with community structures, and real internet, using the shortest path routing and the local routing. The experimental results have demonstrated that the WCS strategy can greatly improve the network load capacity and reduce the average length of the shortest path by adding a small amount of edges between communities. The proposed mechanism not only provides the improvement of network transport efficiency but also can be adapted for restraining of malicious information propagation through the network. KEYWORDS community structure, malicious information propagation, transport efficiency 1 | INTRODUCTION The scale-free network model introduced by Barabás and Albert, and the small-world network model proposed by Watts and Strogatz have revealed the intrinsic characteristics of network structures, which have greatly promoted the rapid development of complex networks in the last 20 years. Further studies have shown that most of the networks in the real world are inhomogeneous and consist of multiple subnetworks. The connections between internal nodes within a subnetwork are very dense, while the connections between nodes from different subnetworks are very sparse. Such a phenomenon, referred as the community structure in the network, is very common in both artificial and natural networks.Hence, due to the small world model and scale-free characteristics, the community structure has become one of the most common and important attributes of complex network topological structure. 1 Due to the complex networks theory, researchers have attempted to treat a series of complex interconnected systems, such as a social network, Internet, and World Wide Web (WWW), as complex networks that reveal their statistical characteristics and transport patterns, which presents a guidance to the real-world applications. 2 Nowadays, the society is faced with big data and huge network traffics, which are highly dependent on network system efficiency. However, the transport efficiency is greatly reduced in the congestion situations, which might lead to network system collapse and cause big troubles in people daily lives. Therefore, improvement of network transport efficiency and mitigation of congestions have important practical significance.Hitherto, researchers have introduced various network transport strategies, which can be mostly divided into 2 categories. The first category consists of "soft" strategies, wherein the transport efficiency improvement is achieved by better routing mechanisms without changing of network topology. 3-6 On the other hand, the second category is both impac...