Racent Among the Top Ten in a 2024 Government Website Certificate Report
A Q3 2024 market report placed Shanghai Racent among the top ten providers for China’s government website SSL certificates, with 519 certificates recorded.
In early October 2024, the Zero Trust Security Research Institute released its Briefing on Development Trends in China’s SSL Certificate Market — Q3 2024. The report recorded 17,356 SSL certificates for Chinese government websites under *.gov.cn. In its table of 17 providers, Shanghai Racent ranked among the top ten, with 519 certificates recorded.
The ranking and counts in this article belong to that report and period. They should not be read as a current market-share ranking or an independent government endorsement.
Screenshot from the Zero Trust Security Research Institute’s Q3 2024 China SSL certificate market briefing.
Growth across two consecutive quarters
The report showed an increase in certificates attributed to Racent for government websites during 2024:
- Q3 2024: 519 certificates, up 24.46% from Q2.
- Q2 2024: 417 certificates, up 54.44% from Q1.
Racent associated this growth with adoption of sslTrus certificates, its participation in government procurement platforms, a range of certificate configurations and technical support.
1. Government procurement platform participation
China’s government procurement cloud platforms support digital purchasing workflows. At the time of the original article, Racent reported that it had joined online marketplaces and electronic procurement stores serving Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Jiangxi, Chongqing and other regions.
The stores listed several products under Racent’s own sslTrus brand, allowing eligible organizations to purchase certificates through their established procurement channels.
The article cited purchases by organizations including a trade union in Zhejiang, a trading center in an autonomous prefecture, an education center in Ningbo, a resource center in Bengbu and a technical college in Guizhou. The original did not identify those customers by name; this translation preserves that anonymity.
2. Certificate options for different government website needs
The procurement store operated under the name Shanghai Ruicheng Information Technology Co., Ltd. listed several sslTrus configurations:
These options address different domain-coverage requirements, from one named domain to multiple names or eligible wildcard subdomains.
The store also listed SM2 SSL certificates for compatible deployments requiring Chinese cryptographic algorithms. Meeting a government project’s compliance requirements depends on the full implementation and applicable procurement specifications, not the certificate alone.
3. Technical support throughout the certificate lifecycle
The original 2024 announcement described Racent’s experienced technical team and 24/7 support for the relevant services. It covered certificate consultation, application, issuance, deployment and troubleshooting, helping organizations implement HTTPS and maintain their website connections.
This describes the service offering in that announcement. Current support coverage and response commitments should be checked for the selected service; it is not a new blanket support guarantee for every international product.
Summary
Racent’s top-ten placement in the report reflected its recorded certificate activity for Chinese government websites in Q3 2024. The article connected that growth with procurement access, varied SSL certificate products and technical service capabilities.
Racent also described its intention to continue developing certificate technologies and services for government websites, contributing to stronger data protection and more manageable secure connections. Information about the company and the international service ecosystem is available on the brands and ecosystem page.
Data source referenced in the original article: Zero Trust Security Research Institute, Briefing on Development Trends in China’s SSL Certificate Market, Q3 2024.