Innovation empowers and builds the foundation for the future-"2021 China IPv6 Innovation and Development Conference" was held in Beijing

In order to implement the deployment requirements of the "Notice on Accelerating the Large-Scale Deployment and Application of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)", promote the coordinated development of IPv6 technology, industry, network, application, and security, and build an industry exchange and cooperation platform, the "2021 China IPv6 Innovation and Development Conference" with the theme of "Innovation Empowerment, Building the Future" was held in Beijing from October 11 to 12, 2021.

Sheng Ronghua, Deputy Director of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission and Deputy Director of the National Cyberspace Administration of China, Yang Xiaowei, Deputy Director and Party Leadership Group Member of the State Administration of Radio and Television, Han Xia, Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Yin Yong, Member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Deputy Mayor, Wu Hequan, Director of the Expert Committee for Promoting Large-Scale Deployment of IPv6 and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Wu Jianping, Deputy Director of the Expert Committee for Promoting Large-Scale Deployment of IPv6 and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches. Academician Wu Hequan presided over the opening ceremony.

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Sheng Ronghua pointed out that the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core attaches great importance to the development of IPv6, and the National 14th Five-Year Plan clearly proposes to "fully promote the commercial deployment of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)". The Central Cyberspace Affairs Office conscientiously implements the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, and works with relevant departments to solidly promote the implementation of tasks, continuously improve the top-level design, and jointly promote the large-scale deployment and application of IPv6. Innovative achievements continue to emerge and positive results have been achieved. The "14th Five-Year Plan" period is an important strategic opportunity period for my country to accelerate digital development, build a network power and digital China, and it is also a critical period for promoting the innovative development of IPv6. We must grasp the new development stage, implement the new development concept, build a new development pattern, and gather forces from government, industry, academia, research, and application to accelerate the high-quality development of IPv6 in my country.

Sheng Ronghua stressed that we must adhere to innovation as the soul, build an "IPv6+" innovation system with enterprises as the main body, market as the orientation, and combining production, learning, research and application, and comprehensively promote IPv6 technology innovation, application innovation, service innovation, and management innovation. We must adhere to the application as the priority, follow the development path of typical applications first, mobile and fixed at the same time, and incremental driving stock, and deeply promote the deployment and application of IPv6 in scenarios such as smart cities, digital villages, energy Internet, and online medical care. We must adhere to security as the priority, coordinate the upgrade of IPv6 network facilities and security assurance, actively play the unique advantages of IPv6 in maintaining network security, and effectively prevent network security risks. We must adhere to the principle of benefiting the people, focus on the new expectations and needs of the people, improve network performance, optimize public services, enrich information products, and bridge the digital divide at a higher level.

Yang Xiaowei pointed out in his speech that radio and television are important national infrastructure and an important position for building a strong network. In recent years, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has thoroughly implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on building smart radio and television media and developing smart radio and television networks, and insisted on implementing smart radio and television construction as the overall guide, vigorously promoting the integration of national cable TV networks and the integrated development of radio and television 5G construction, promoting the integration and sharing of radio and television cloud networks and terminals, and intelligent sharing, and accelerating the transformation and upgrading to high-speed, ubiquitous, intelligent, and secure new infrastructure and comprehensive service networks. While better playing the role of public opinion propaganda positions and serving the overall work of the Party and the country, it provides strong support for China's digital development. Facing the "14th Five-Year Plan", the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has included the promotion of IPv6 in the industry's "14th Five-Year Plan" science and technology development plan, and listed it as a key task of the radio and television technology iteration action, further expanding the breadth and depth of IPv6 large-scale deployment, and promoting the development of IPv6 in the radio and television field from scratch.

Han Xia pointed out in his speech that, under the background of the in-depth advancement of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, the development of IPv6 is of great significance to promoting the evolution and upgrading of the Internet and accelerating the construction of a cyber power and digital China. Since 2018, under the guidance of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other departments, the IPv6 Expert Committee has successfully hosted three "China IPv6 Development Forums", which have received wide attention from all walks of life. For three consecutive years, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has successively carried out a series of special tasks such as "IPv6 Network Readiness", "IPv6 End-to-End Connectivity", and "IPv6 Traffic Improvement", and organized the entire industry to solidly promote various tasks and made positive progress.

First, the supply capacity has been significantly enhanced, and the IPv6 "highway" has been fully built. my country's IPv6 network infrastructure is the largest in the world, and the number of IPv6 address resources that have been applied for ranks first in the world. Second, the terminal equipment has been upgraded at a faster pace, and breakthroughs have been achieved in key links of end-to-end connection. Third, the innovative vitality has been continuously released, and the scale of IPv6 users and traffic has increased significantly. my country's mobile network IPv6 traffic has grown from nothing to 22.87%, exceeding the annual target ahead of schedule. Chief Engineer Han Xia emphasized that all parties in the industry need to work together to do a good job in three aspects in the next step: First, accelerate scale deployment, improve service capabilities, and jointly promote the deepening transformation of IPv6 in various links such as cloud, pipe, terminal, and use. Second, deepen integrated applications, empower industry development, and encourage the information and communication industry to carry out larger-scale and deeper IPv6 collaborative innovation with industries such as finance, education, medical care, and energy. Third, focus on innovation breakthroughs, improve the industrial ecology, and promote the overall development level of the industry.

Yin Yong pointed out in his speech that as a pioneer in the development of China's Internet industry, Beijing has actively implemented the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council and has unswervingly deployed and applied IPv6 on a large scale. It has made the promotion of IPv6 transformation of basic network Internet application services, strengthening IPv6 network security protection and IPv6 industry development the focus of its work. According to data from the National IPv6 Development Monitoring Platform, the proportion of active mobile IPv6 users in Beijing accounts for 68.9% of the total number of active mobile users, and the proportion of active fixed IPv6 users accounts for 55.5%. The average IPv6 support rate of websites has reached 88.6%, and mobile network IPv6 traffic accounts for 20.5% of the total mobile network traffic. The data centers and government-owned networks of the three major operators fully support IPv6. In the next step, Beijing will focus on facilities, applications, industries, technologies and security in the construction of a global digital economy benchmark city, and further promote the large-scale deployment and extensive application of IPv6.

Wang Zhiqin, Secretary General of the Expert Committee for Promoting Large-Scale Deployment of IPv6, presided over the summit forum. Huang Zhengwu, Deputy Secretary General of the China Internet Society Federation, released the list of "Excellent Cases of Large-Scale Deployment and Application of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)" and held a certificate awarding ceremony. Academicians Wu Hequan and Wu Jianping delivered keynote speeches and released the "White Paper on the Development of IPv6 in China".

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Academician Wu Hequan said in his keynote speech on "Large-Scale Deployment and Innovative Development of IPv6" that as of August 2021, the number of active IPv6 users in my country has reached 551 million, accounting for about 54.52% of Chinese netizens. The total IPv6 traffic of the metropolitan area networks of the three major basic telecommunications companies has exceeded 20Tbps, and the total IPv6 traffic of the LTE core network has exceeded 10Tbps, accounting for 22.87% of the total network traffic. my country has applied for IPv6 address resources, ranking first in the world. The top 100 commercial websites and applications in China can be accessed through IPv6. my country's large-scale deployment of IPv6 has achieved remarkable results. "IPv6+" is an upgrade of the next-generation Internet of IPv6. It is an IP network innovation system for the 5G and cloud era. Through large-scale commercial deployment of IPv6 and "IPv6+" innovation, network capabilities can be improved, the digital transformation of the industry can be enabled, a new generation of high-quality network foundation can be created, and the "new foundation" of digital economy, digital society and digital government can be comprehensively built.

Academician Wu Jianping said in his keynote speech on "Innovative Development of IPv6 Next Generation Internet Architecture" that the Internet architecture is the key core technology of the Internet. The innovative development of IPv6 Next Generation Internet architecture faces many challenges. If the core technology of cyberspace is not mastered, the innovative development of cyberspace will be difficult. We need to increase our efforts to participate in solving Internet problems and formulating international standards, seize opportunities, promote the innovative development of the next generation Internet architecture, and make greater contributions to the development of the Internet.

Subsequently, the heads of industry standard organizations, basic telecommunications companies, equipment manufacturers, Internet companies, and financial institutions gave their keynote speeches. Wen Ku, Secretary-General of the China Communications Standards Association, introduced the development history of China's IPv6 standards and put forward the work considerations for the next stage of IPv6 standard construction. Li Huidi, Deputy General Manager of China Mobile Group, pointed out that China Mobile adheres to the dual-wheel drive of national policy guidance and endogenous corporate demand. It has built the world's largest IPv6 network and achieved the same quality of IPv6 network as IPv4 network. In the future, China Mobile will continue to promote the construction of a network power and build a new IPv6 industry ecosystem.

Hu Kewen, Vice President of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., emphasized the great value that IPv6 brings to network technology innovation. New technologies such as network slicing, segment routing, and flow detection based on IPv6 can achieve comprehensive and continuous improvement of network service capabilities and support the digital transformation of the entire industry. Huawei will continue to work in the IPv6+ field and make more contributions to the development of the IPv6+ industry. Cheng Li, CTO of Alibaba Group, said in his speech that Alibaba has continued to improve the IPv6 traffic of Alibaba Group APP through full-link and full-stack transformation and upgrading and innovative practice scenarios. Li Wei, Deputy Director of the Operation Data Center of China Construction Bank, shared the practical achievements of China Construction Bank in the field of IPv6, providing a typical example for the digital transformation of the industry.

The conference was held under the guidance of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the State Administration of Radio and Television, hosted by the Expert Committee for Promoting Large-Scale Deployment of IPv6, and co-organized by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Processing Coordination Center, the China Communications Standards Association, the China Internet Society Federation, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., CERNET Co., Ltd., Wangsu Technology Co., Ltd., and Alibaba Group. The conference set up 1 summit forum, 7 sub-forums (network frontier technology sub-forum, government affairs sub-forum, central enterprise informatization sub-forum, industrial Internet and intelligent manufacturing sub-forum, education and scientific research sub-forum, Internet application facilities and services sub-forum) and the "IPv6 large-scale deployment and application excellent cases" exhibition, covering the core content of IPv6 large-scale deployment such as network infrastructure, application infrastructure, Internet application services, and industrial chain support.