As of December 2013, China had 330 million IPv4 addresses and its IPv6 addresses totaled 16,670 blocks/32. There were totally 18.44 million domain names in China. Specifically, .cn domain names increased by 44.2% over the same period of last year to 10.83 million, accounting for 58.7%of total Chinese domain names. There were altogether 3.2 million websites in China, an increase of 19.4% compared with that in the same period of last year. China's international Internet gateway bandwidth reached 3,406,824 Mbps, a year-on-year increase of 79.3%.
Table 2: Comparison of China's Basic Internet Resources, 2012 and 2013
As of December 2013, the number of IPv6 addresses in China reached 16,670 blocks/32, a 33.0%growth compared with that in the same period last year, ranking second worldwide.
Figure 16: Number of IPv6 Addresses in China
The total number of IPv4 addresses in China remained basically unchanged, totaling 330 million as of December 2013.
Figure 17: Changes in China's IPv4 Address Resources
Stimulated by an increase in .cn domain names, the total number of China's domain names amounted to 18.44 million, growing by 37.5% compared to the end of last year.
Table 3: Number of China's Domain Names by Type
Note: The number of gTLDs comes from the data released by WebHosting. Info on December 30, 2013.
As of December 2013, the number of .cn domain names reached 10.83 million in China, increasing by 44.2% year on year and accounting for 58.7% of total Chinese domain names; and .com domain names were 6.31 million, taking up 34.2%. In addition, the .中国domain names totaled 270,000.
Table 4: Number of China's . CN Domain Names by Type
As of December 2013, China had 3.2 million websites. The number increased by 0.52 million in the year 2013 with a growth rate of 19.4%.
Figure 18: Number of Websites in China
Note: The data exclude the websites registered under .edu.cn.
As of December 2013, China had 150 billion web pages, a year-on-year increase of 22.2%.
Figure 19: Number of Web Pages in China
In 2013, both the average number of web pages per website and the average number of bytes per web page kept growing, indicating more diversified content on China's Internet: the average number of web pages per website reached 46,900, an increase of 2.3% over the same period of last year, and the average number of bytes per web page reached 50 KB, an increase of 19.0%.
Table 5: Number of China's Web Pages
As of December 2013, China's international Internet gateway bandwidth was 3,406,824 Mbps, with an annual growth rate of 79.3%.
Figure 20: Changes in China's International Internet Gateway Bandwidth
Table 6: International Internet Gateway Bandwidths of China's Backbone Networks