The Chinese Government has announced the completion of a network of national nodes for industrial internet applications.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has announced the completion of the national root nodes of the Chinese industrial internet identity resolution system.

The national root nodes are the top layer of a national network that includes second level nodes and enterprise nodes, which are the lowest level of the national network. The Chinese industrial internet network also includes international nodes, which lay above the national root nodes in the schema.

China has implemented what it describes as its “5+2” national root node topology. This is a network of five regional national root nodes located at Chongqing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan and Beijing. A sixth node comprises a disaster recovery utility, with two national back-up hubs in Nanjing and Chengdu.

The national network now has 247 second level nodes and over 200,000 enterprise nodes. It has over 200 billion IDs registered, and resolves 120 million IDs daily for 38 major industries acoss 29 provinces, cities and autonomous regions.