China reports major IPv6 growth
Key findings from the China IPv6 Development Report (2025), released by the Expert Committee for Promoting Large-Scale IPv6 Deployment and Application.
Key findings from the China IPv6 Development Report (2025), released by the Expert Committee for Promoting Large-Scale IPv6 Deployment and Application.
Mid-2025 data shows sustained IPv6 growth in China, backed by coordinated policy, infrastructure upgrades, and rising application-level adoption.
Guest Post: China is building a city with IPv6-only from the ground up.
An IPv6 deployment that began with a series of relatively isolated IPv6 metro area networks (MANs) has begun to take off.
Guest Post: Since the release of the government’s IPv6 Action Plan in 2017, IPv6 deployment in China has made steady gains, especially among LTE networks.
Guest Post: ChinaCache is now starting to see the advantage of being an early adopter of IPv6.
Guest Post: Led by Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu and JD, content and application service providers have been busy upgrading to IPv6.
With an estimated Internet user population of 741 million people, China’s adoption of IPv6 matters a lot to IPv6 reaching critical mass globally.
Guest Post: Beijing Internet Institute’s Linjian Song analyses China’s IPv6 deployment challenges and the path forward.
Guest Post: Murdoch University’s Sebastian Zander and Xuequn Wang discuss their research on IPv6 progress in Australia and China, asking what can be done to accelerate deployment.