China to advance development of next-generation internet

China's cabinet has said that the government will accelerate the development of the next-generation internet industry over the next few years and boost the sector''s role in stimulating the economy. The country aims to put the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)-based network into small-scale commercial pilot use and form a mature business model by the end of 2013, the Cabinet said in a statement quoted today by Xinhua news . From 2014 to 2015, the country will deploy and commercialize the IPv6-based network on a larger scale and achieve the interconnection between IPv4 and IPv6-based operations, the statement said. During that period, a group of international competitive research institutions and enterprises in the next-generation internet sector will be established, it said.