China sets 2030 target for next-generation internet infrastructure

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and three other agencies issued guidelines on July 13 to upgrade the country’s internet basic resources, targeting “systematic breakthroughs” by 2030 and a more advanced national internet infrastructure by 2035. The document calls for research into agent-to-agent networks, satellite internet, digital identity infrastructure, IPv6 upgrades, and the integration of AI, blockchain, and distributed identifiers with internet resource systems.