Openharmony

“Two institutional moves on Chinese open source at two different surfaces, in the same week. First, CCTV Finance’s national-level educational program (中国经济大讲堂, September 6, 2026) — China’s first state-media codification of an open-source-as-national-economy strategy, broadcasting to a general audience a three-axis framework (open source as road-building rather than city-building; open source as changing-the-road-and-outrunning rather than ceding position; open source as not-simplistic-borrowing rather than free-take — with an explicit disclaimer that ‘open ≠ free’ and ‘open ≠ ceding core competitiveness’), alongside documented scale figures (DeepSeek R1 MIT license driving retraining/redistribution; OpenHarmony’s 600+ ecosystem partners; openEuler’s ten-million-unit install base displacing foreign closed-source systems; Chinese open-source models’ global downloads surpassing 100 billion; Hugging Face’s 41% Chinese-model share — the largest share on the platform; the OpenAtom Foundation’s Humanoid Robot open-source community co-built by hundreds of industrial-chain units). Second, and independently, a private-equity control structure — Jiashu Investment (嘉树投资) — has now become the chairman of both Tongxin Software (统信软件, UOS) and FangDe (中科方德), two of the top three desktop OS vendors in the Chinese market, in a single move that follows Fangde’s August 27 capital injection (Jiashu: 0 → 12.01%) and September 2 old-share acquisition (12.01% → 30.51%). Together, the two events document a structurally new institutional layer on the operating-system layer that the prior nine briefings did not yet observe: state-media ideological codification at one end and private-equity chairman-consolidation at the other, both operating within the same China Center for Information Security certification-access regime that governs the desktop-OS market.”

“凤凰 AI研究院 dialogue with Wang Chenglu (王成录, deepin AI Labs / 深开鸿 CEO, ex-Huawei HarmonyOS co-creator, 24-year Huawei veteran, Harbin Institute of Technology PhD) publishes the first-documented institutional reading of the OpenHarmony base layer by the ex-Huawei architect who now runs the ecosystem’s second-largest contributor: OpenHarmony has reached 14 billion device installs, of which only ~3 billion are Huawei phones and 11 billion are non-Huawei devices — the article’s own claim; Huawei’s contribution share inside the OpenHarmony community has declined from ~90% to ~70% (Wang Chenglu’s own framing of a “natural process”); 哈勃投资 (Hubble Investment, Huawei’s venture arm) held a 20% stake in 深开鸿 at founding — an outlier for Hubble’s usual <10% rule; 深开鸿 has been led for four years by Wang Chenglu after he left Huawei in 2022 with what Ren Zhengfei framed as “the widest moat for Huawei itself” — an institutional fact about the vendor-foundation separation that the previous briefings’ Western-neutral-foundation question did not document at the vendor-official agenda layer; the article documents the M-Robots OS donation to OpenAtom Foundation and OpenAtom’s own official timeline of M-Robots OS 1.0 (April 2025) → full open-sourcing (July 2025) → donation with independent PMC (November 2025) → 2.0 release (May 2026), which is the vendor-foundation separation pattern being applied to a new domain (robot operating systems) with a 76% dependency-on-foreign-ROS base as the diagnostic; 工信部 (MIIT) is described as pushing a unified IoT interconnection standard for OpenHarmony — an administrative-industrial-policy placement that pairs with the September 6 briefing’s MIIT AI SME Startup Support Plan; the article’s own claim that 深开鸿’s 2028 target is to become “a pure ecosystem-platform enterprise, like today’s Google or Microsoft” and that “the base layer for the Internet of Everything is most likely to be realized in China” — a structurally new vendor-official claim that pairs with the “万物互联的底座=未来谷歌微软” framing in the WeChat input’s own metadata.”

“APEC Chengdu Statement (July 23, 2026) becomes the first minister-level multilateral statement to include open-source AI cooperation — mainstreaming the ‘strong security assurance’ framing as the multilateral counterpart to Global Times’ ‘comprehensive AI governance’ frame; Tech Times (July 14, 2026) documents that China’s National AI Industry Investment Fund is the only voting shareholder in DeepSeek’s $7.4B June 2026 round — a structurally new asymmetric-governance architecture ahead of a 2027 IPO target; CAICT (China Academy of Information and Communications Technology) receives OpenHarmony compatibility-certification cooperation-center qualification — extending OpenHarmony’s certification instrument from company-ecosystem layer to national-regulatory layer; the 2026 China Linux Kernel Developer Conference opens registration — a China-prefix naming-politics extension; openKylin X-Kernel (Rust) emerges from lab — moving from research-stage to deployment-stage.”

MIIT quantifies China’s open source ecosystem for the first time: 1.35B OpenHarmony devices, 10B model downloads; Jensen Huang defends Chinese open-source AI; White House specifically accuses Moonshot AI of distilling Fable 5; Arcee says Chinese models not inherently dangerous.