500 000 000

1 300 000 000

ORIENTplus connects 25% of the world population with 35% of global GDP

5 200 000 000

ORIENTplus serves 4.8 million researchers and 51 million tertiary students in China and Europe

1

31 000 000

20 000 000

120 000

23 000

ORIENTplus is a 12,000 km link over which 3,882 Terabytes of data were transferred in 2013

991 m (3251 ft)

828 m (2717 ft)

508 m (1667 ft)

306 m (1004 ft)

DVD tower with data sent

over ORIENTplus in 2013

Burj Khalifathe tallest building in the world

Taipei 101the tallest building in

China

The Shardthe tallest building

in Europe

Total link expenditure of €4m = 5 cents / 4 jiao per ORIENTplus user over 4 years

Linking Europe and China

1/15 bottle of water

1/30 litre of fuel

27 seconds of a cinema movie

12 seconds of a musical download

2 pages of an online book

World population Global GDP