Internet has become the most important information infrastructure supporting modern socio-economic development, social progress and technological innovation. Invented 30 years ago, today Internet is facing increasingly severe technical challenges. This paper introduces the progress of the major international newgeneration Internet research plans; analyzes its basic characteristics and the principal contradictions during the development; detailedly introduces the research carried out by 973 Project "Research of Future Internet Architecture" on the key scientific issues of new-generation Internet architecture and its latest research results; and looks to the future of the research-focus faced with the new situations of the basic research of new-generation Internet architecture as well as the new demands of innovative applications on Internet architecture.new-generation Internet, network architecture, multi-dimension scalability As a 20th century's invention, Internet has built an unprecedented sharing environment of information communication, technology and resource for the human beings. It has profoundly changed people's production, living and learning mode, and has become a unique infrastructure supporting modern socio-economic development, social progress and technological innovation. Internet and its applications have become one of the important symbols for judging fundamental strength and economic competitiveness of a country.With the rapid development of technologies such as high-speed optical communications, wireless mobile communication, high-performance low-cost computing and software, as well as the continuous emergence of innovative applications of the Internet, people's demand on size, functionality and performance of the Internet has also increased. The Internet that is invented 30 years ago taking IPv4 as its core technology, is facing increasingly severe technical challenges. For example, insufficient network address limits the large-scale expansion of network; due to so