China Data Centers & Network Edge
<p>China is Zenlayer's deepest in-country footprint in Asia, with 65 data centers spanning 18 cities from Hong Kong to Ningxia. The country combines the scale of a billion-plus mainland internet audience, the density of a tier-1 carrier ecosystem led by China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom, and strict data sovereignty requirements that make in-market presence a deployment prerequisite rather than a convenience. Few operators offer this combination of mainland reach and Hong Kong cross-border peering under a single footprint.</p><p>Hong Kong anchors the international side of the footprint with 16 data centers across carrier-neutral facilities from Equinix, Digital Realty, Global Switch, iAdvantage, and the three mainland telecoms, and carries the full Zenlayer product stack including bare metal, virtual machines, edge colocation, IP transit, CDN, and SDN interconnection. Inside the mainland, Beijing and Shanghai serve as flagship commercial anchors with 12 data centers each, supported by tier-2 hubs across the Greater Bay Area (Guangzhou, Shenzhen), the Yangtze River Delta (Hangzhou, Suzhou, Wuxi, Nantong, Changzhou), the western interior (Chengdu, Xi'an, Ningxia), and further nodes in Tianjin, Jinan, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, and Loudi.</p><p>China anchors Zenlayer's East Asia region alongside Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Hong Kong functions as the cross-border gateway connecting mainland workloads with Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, and the wider Asia-Pacific and global internet, while the mainland footprint carries domestic traffic on tier-1 carrier paths directly to the end user base.</p>
Typical Workloads
- Mainland delivery across Beijing, Shanghai, and regional hubs
- Cross-border peering via Hong Kong to global networks
- Asia-Pacific distribution, gaming, and financial services
Cities
China's political capital and northern internet backbone, anchoring traffic for 22M residents.
A Yangtze Delta manufacturing city sitting on the high-speed corridor between Shanghai and Nanjing.
Western China's largest metro and the gateway from the Sichuan basin toward Central Asia and beyond.
The manufacturing engine of the Greater Bay Area and southern China's primary trade and logistics hub.
China's e-commerce capital and home to the cloud and fintech giants of the Yangtze River Delta.
The bridge between mainland China and global networks, dense in subsea cable landings and peering fabric.
Capital of Shandong province and a regional gateway between Beijing and the Yangtze Delta.
A central Hunan metro bridging inland China into the networks of the Yangtze and Pearl River deltas.
A Yangtze-mouth port metro directly across the river from Shanghai, extending the delta's digital reach.
Ningxia anchors China's western data corridor, tapping desert solar and wind for renewable compute.
China's financial capital and the country's busiest east coast interconnection hub.
China's hardware and tech manufacturing capital, adjacent to Hong Kong at the Pearl River Delta.
An industrial heavyweight in the Yangtze River Delta, 100 km west of Shanghai's core.
Northern China's largest coastal port, serving as the seaborne gateway to Beijing 130 km inland.
Central China's transport crossroads on the Yangtze, connecting north, south, east, and west rail trunks.
A Yangtze Delta manufacturing hub known for semiconductors, sitting between Shanghai and Nanjing.
The inland anchor of northwest China and the ancient Silk Road's starting point toward Central Asia.
Henan's provincial capital and a central China crossroads where north-south and east-west rail corridors meet.