At a time when the the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Area is stepping up construction of the 5G network, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Central Cyberspace Affairs Office recently released the "Three-year Special Action Plan for IPv6 Traffic Increase (2021-2023)".

The next three years are a key stage in IPv6 development [Photo/kfqgw.beijing.gov.cn]

The "Special Action Plan" focuses on the overall goal of increasing IPv6 traffic. 

It specifies that by the end of 2023, mobile network IPv6 traffic will account for more than 50 percent of all traffic, with fixed network IPv6 traffic accounting for more than three times that of 2020.

The IPv6 concentration of commercial Internet applications with the top 100 number of users will exceed 70 percent, and the proportion of fixed terminals obtaining IPv6 addresses will surpass 80 percent.

China has attached great importance to the development of IPv6. 

In November 2017, the country clarified its roadmap and timetable for advancing the deployment of IPv6. 

As of the end of April 2021, the number of users in China that have obtained IPv6 addresses has increased from 74 million at the end of 2017 to 1.54 billion. Additionally, more than 50 percent of cloud service availability domains support IPv6.