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     <img src="https://img.alicdn.com/imgextra/i2/O1CN01NwxLDd20nxfGBjxmZ_!!6000000006895-2-tps-960-290.png" alt="Higress" width="240" height="72.5">
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-  Next-generation Cloud Native Gateway
+  Cloud Native API Gateway
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    English | <a href="README.md">中文<a/>
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-Higress is a next-generation cloud-native gateway based on Alibaba's internal gateway practices. 
+Higress is a cloud-native api gateway based on Alibaba's internal gateway practices. 
 
 Powered by [Istio](https://github.com/istio/istio) and [Envoy](https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy), Higress realizes the integration of the triple gateway architecture of traffic gateway, microservice gateway and security gateway, thereby greatly reducing the costs of deployment, operation and maintenance.