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. [IT Home, in Chinese]