China successfully built the core network of its next generation Internet, leading the world in developing a larger, faster and safer Internet that is to dominate the future.
The network, called CNGI-CERNET2/6IX, passed the examination of an expert team organized by the Ministry of Education.
Experts said the network reached world-leading levels with major innovations and will give China a bigger say in the field.
China launched the building of the next-generation Internet in 2003 and completed in 2005 its first next-generation Internet, the CNGI-CERNET2.
The success of the CNGI's core network freed China from dependence on foreign key Internet technologies and products and ensured national information security, said experts.
Proposed in mid-1990s, the next generation Internet is estimated to increase the information transmitting speed by more than 1,000 times to 40Gbps.
It also offers more safety, easier management and almost inexhaustible Internet addresses.
In the next generation Internet, the Internet protocol version 6 was applied instead of the currently used Internet protocol version 4.