The Cloudflare China Network

Give your users in China a fast, secure online experience.

Traffic bottlenecks, poor interconnection between local ISPs, and an active threat landscape can create web performance, reliability and security challenges for websites operating in China. 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 other 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. Three major ISPs control the network, but due to limited peering, traffic congestion is frequent. Congestion also occurs when traffic leaves and enters China — resulting in high latency and packet loss.

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.

Our local partner in China

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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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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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Solution & Product Guides

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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Blog

Announcing a Partnership Between Cloudflare and JD Cloud

Our partnership with JD Cloud will allow international businesses to grow their online presence in China without having to worry about managing separate tools with separate vendors for security and performance.

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Whitepaper

Optimize website performance and security in China

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

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Case Study

Polestar Case Study

The Cloudflare China Network improves sluggish performance on Polestar's Chinese web properties and showroom Configurator experience.

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