In July 1994, built up China’s first nationwide TCP/IP and X.25 network backbone;
In Jan.1995, published Shenzhou Learning, the first electronic publication in Mainland China;
In Aug.1995, put into use Watery and Woody Tsinghua, the first BBS in Mainland China;
In Dec.1995, built up China’s first nationwide TCP/IP and DDN network backbone;
In Mar.1996, RFC1922, the first IETF standard Chinese researchers participated in came into being;
In Nov.1996, opened China’s first international link with European network;
In Dec.1996, opened the first link to Hong Kong network in Mainland China;
In Mar.1998, CERNET homepage was ranked the LYCOS Top 5% excellent websites;
In Apr.1998, built up the CERNET-6Bone, which is China’s first international IPv6 network testbed adapting the IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel technology;
In May 1999, built up the CERNET-6Ren, which is China’s first international connected network with product quality;
In Sept. 1999, set up CCERT, China’s fist network emergency response center;
In Mar.2000, signed the MoU with Internet2 organization of U.S.A;
In Sept. 2000, built up the DRAGONTAP, which is China’s first exchange point connected with international next generation Internet
In July 2001, built up China’s first next generation academic trial network NSFCNET;
In Nov.2001, participated the large scale network video academic meeting SC2001（Super Computing 2001）;
In Feb. 2002, built up the CERNET-MBone, the first multicast network in China;
In Mar.2004, built up China’s first nationwide pure IPv6 academic network;

CNGI-CERNET2 Major Events

In Aug.2003, won the bidding by competition to undertake the core network CERNET2 of China Next Generation Internet Demonstration Project CNGI and to operate CNGI-6IX;
In Oct. 2003, opened the trial CERNET2 network connecting Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou;
In Jau.2004, CERNET, together with eight international next generation networks announced the opening of global IPv6 network services;
In Mar.2004, formally opened CERNET2 trial network and offered related service;
In Sept.2004, the proposal of CERNET2 backbone deployment was approved by the Ministry of Education of China, which will be undertaken by 25 key research universities for 20 PoPs.
In Dec. 2004, opened CERNET2 backbone PoPs distributed in 20 cities with 10G transmission rate;
In 2005, started the initiatives of CNGI technical trials, application demonstrations and industrialization.

update:2006-1-11