China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced plans to accelerate the systematic construction of a high-quality, domestic open-source software ecosystem, moving to secure critical software codebases and establish alternative international technology standards. Speaking last Thursday at the 2026 Open Atom Open Source Ecological Conference in Beijing, Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology Xiong Jijun confirmed that China’s Developer Networks have achieved world-leading growth velocities. According to the state disclosure, the national strategy is transitioning from rapid scale expansion toward high-quality, structured development to forge a secure, collaborative innovation platform linking domestic universities, research institutes, and industrial industrial clusters….
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