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China s Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission and Cyberspace Administration have set out a plan for massive adoption of IPv6.
A Notice on Accelerating the Large-scale Deployment and Application of IPv6 posted last Friday calls for China to have 700 million active IPv6 users by 2023, plus 200 million Internet of Things devices using the protocol.
Also by 2023, home wireless routers will be required to enable and fully support IPv6 by default, with 30 per cent of the national fleet using the protocol. Other consumer devices will be required to bake in IPv6. Half of mobile traffic will use the newer protocol and 15 per cent of metropolitan area network traffic will be routed by IPv6.