From China Daily:
China’s Internet users increased 20 million in the first quarter of this year, hitting the 404 million mark, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said on Thursday, the Shanghai Securities News reported.
With the fast increase of Internet users, China’s current Internet protocol (IP) addresses will run out in the next 2 to 3 years, and the country has to speed up the deployment of the new generation IP addresses – IPv6, said Zhu Jun, deputy director of the ministry’s telecom development department.
But until now, the country still does not have a clear plan for the development of IPv6, neither does it clear on how to handle the relationship between IPv6 and the current IPv4 in the future, Zhu said.
