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The Cloudflare China Network

Give your users in China a fast, secure online experience.
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Ensuring performance, reliability and security for websites operating in China can be challenging for many global organizations. Cloudflare and our strategic partners in China have created a global network that offers a fast experience for visitors inside and outside of China — with DDoS mitigation, web application firewall (WAF), and Zero Trust security services built in.

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How the Cloudflare China Network works

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China’s Internet architecture differs from the rest of the world. Users within China accessing content from data centers outside China may experience congestion and packet loss leading to a poor user experience.

To optimize delivery of content throughout China, it’s important to have geographically dispersed data centers across China, and connectivity to the major ISPs in each region. This is what the Cloudflare China Network provides. We've partnered with JD Cloud to grow our network. As of today, we have more than 45 data centers in approximately 30 unique cities within mainland China.

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Performance and security services on the Cloudflare China Network:

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Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Serve static content from data centers that are dispersed across many cities in mainland China and connected to the major ISPs in every region.

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In-country DNS resolution

Further reduce website load times with the option to resolve DNS requests within China.

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DDoS mitigation

Stop the largest attacks with unmetered, always-on protection that operates at the network edge, reducing time-to-mitigate and eliminating web performance penalties.

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Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Build and deploy custom rules in minutes, and draw on threat intelligence automatically curated from protecting millions of websites.

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Encryption

Protect data in transit by uploading your own custom SSL certificate, use a universal certificate, or let Cloudflare manage dedicated certificates specific to your business.

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Serverless computing

Build and deploy serverless code instantly across the entire Cloudflare network (including China) to give your applications exceptional performance, reliability, and scale.

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The Cloudflare China Network is run in partnership with JD Cloud, the cloud computing arm of the Chinese eCommerce giant JD.com. JD Cloud was named a 'Strong Performer' in Forrester's Wave for public cloud platforms in China.

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China Express

Cloudflare One in China - CMI and China Express updates

China Express is a suite of connectivity and performance offerings that accelerate application access for users in China, offered in partnership with China Mobile International (CMI) and CBC Tech.

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Cloudflare One in China - CMI and China Express updates
Premium DIA

Premium Dedicated Internet Access, is an optimized, high-quality public Internet circuit for cross-border connectivity provided by our local partners CMI and CBC Tech. Customers can use Premium DIA to improve origin performance for their Cloudflare service in mainland China by up to 60%.

Private Link

Private link offers a dedicated private tunnel between your locations in China and data centers outside of China. Private Link can also be used to establish dedicated private connectivity to SaaS data centers like Salesforce. Private link is available through our partners and there may be additional requirements to implement it.

Travel SIM

Provided by Cloudflare’s partner CMI, the Travel SIM automatically provides network connectivity and can be used together with the Cloudflare WARP Client on mobile devices to provide Cloudflare’s suite of Zero Trust security services. With the Travel SIM, users can enjoy the same Cloudflare global service as the rest of the world when traveling to China.

Cloudflare One in China

Cloudflare One, our zero trust network-as-a-service product, is available in mainland China through our strategic partnerships. Global organizations will now be able to ensure their employees both inside and outside China get secure, performant access to apps from their offices using Magic WAN and from remote sites using the Cloudflare WARP device client.

China Express partners

Cloudflare partners with leading network providers in China including China Mobile International (CMI) and CBC Tech.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The Cloudflare difference

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Resilient and reliable

Every security and performance service runs in each data center in the Cloudflare China Network, giving it the capacity to withstand the largest attacks and function as normal in the event of isolated outages.

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Threat intelligence

Cloudflare continually analyzes incoming attacks and automatically applies this threat intelligence across the entire network, including data centers in China. Stopping an attack on one customer makes all customers safer.

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Easy to manage

Manage your traffic and security posture inside and outside of China from a unified control plane — no separate dashboards, support, or billing. Changes propagate across the entire network within minutes.

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The Cloudflare China Network

Deliver a secure, fast-performing, and reliable online experience to audiences in China, regardless of local networking and security challenges.

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Navigating the challenges of connecting with your audience in China

Together with our local strategic partners, Cloudflare has been supporting global business in China since 2015. We can help you to think global while acting locally, to deliver a faster, secure and more reliable experience to your customers, partners, and employees in China.

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Strategies for tapping into China’s massive, complex and rapidly growing Internet economy.

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Cloudflare One in China - China Express partnering with CMI and CBC

This CFTV episode we’ll demonstrate how Cloudflare is helping CIOs keep data, devices and employees both safe and fast across hybrid and remote environments. We’ll show how Cloudflare accelerates digital transformation and modernizes networking and security towards a Zero Trust model.

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Announcing a Partnership Between Cloudflare and JD Cloud

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