China Open Source Daily — 2026-09-06
“MIIT’s office issued the AI SME Startup Support Plan 2026-2028 on September 4, 2026 — a 15-item three-year programme that makes five institutionally new moves on the same unsolved object as the prior four briefings (Ren Xudong’s governance-layer-deficit essay on September 5; CAC’s Qinglang Phase 2 on September 3; Chongqing’s 15th-Five-Year-Plan on September 2; COPU’s KubeCon address on September 2): (1) Item 9 formally names AtomGit as ’national-level AI open-source community’ (国家级人工智能开源社区), the first administrative-document designation of AtomGit at the national-community level and a structural confirmation of AtomGit’s role as the institutional anchor of China’s open-weight release apparatus; (2) Item 4 explicitly names ‘open-source community core contributors’ as a new entrepreneurial subject with an encouraged commercialization path — the first administrative recognition that open-source contribution itself is an entrepreneurial subject class in China; (3) Item 13 introduces compute-equity and data-equity arrangements (算力入股、数据入股), an institutional innovation that treats compute and data as equity inputs into SME ventures rather than market-priced factor inputs; (4) Item 4 also explicitly names ‘one-person companies / super individuals’ (一人公司 / 超级个体) as an encouraged entrepreneurial subject — a structurally new administrative recognition of the individual contributor as an SME-form object; (5) the evaluation-metrics clause (last paragraph) explicitly names open-source project star counts as one of four official performance indicators for identifying high-growth-potential AI SMEs — the first administrative-document use of the GitHub-style star metric as an institutional evaluation metric in China.”