TapTechNews September 25th news, the 2024 OpenAtom Open Source Ecosystem Conference was held in Beijing today, and Minister Jin Zhuanglong of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology attended and delivered a speech. He stated that strengthening the construction of the open source system is of great significance for promoting the high-quality development of the software industry, accelerating the development of new-quality productive forces, and promoting new-type industrialization.
Jin Zhuanglong proposed that it is necessary to accelerate the construction of open source infrastructure, make the national open source organizations better and stronger, support foundations to benchmark against international advanced levels, and comprehensively improve the level of public services such as industrial support, technical research, and project incubation. Build high-quality open source communities for fields such as basic software and industrial software, and support the increase in supply and application promotion of open source agreements. It is necessary to empower the transformation and upgrading of the industry, actively promote the open source model, support enterprises to set up full-time open source offices, make up for and strengthen development shortcomings, and accelerate the layout in emerging fields. Improve the open source collaboration system and support local areas in actively exploring and taking the lead in piloting in aspects such as open source asset evaluation and open source industry-finance cooperation.
TapTechNews learned from the speech that at present, the number and growth rate of open source participants in China both rank among the top in the world, and some of the data are as follows:
More than 20,000 contributors have gathered in the Open Euler community, and the number of users exceeds 3.5 million;
The OpenHarmony project has attracted more than 340 ecological units to jointly build, and the number of equipped devices exceeds 900 million;
The Mulan Chinese Open Source License Agreement has achieved international general use.