In mainland China, there are 2,236 universities, 1.61 million teachers and staff, and over 20 million students in higher education.

CERNET has 38 PoPs, backbone bandwidth has been up to multiple 10 Gbps and regional bandwidth up to 2.5 Gbps. There are about 1,500 universities and institutions connected and about 20 million end users.

IP address allocation and edu.cn domain name registration:

edu.cn domain name registration

Number of connected units:

Number of connected end users:

update:2006-1-11