On the morning of November 30, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued the Development Plan of software and Information Technology Service industry during the 14th Five-year Plan period (hereinafter referred to as the Plan) and held a press conference to introduce the relevant situation of the plan.

In the “Trends” section of the main body of the Plan, it points out that open source is reshaping a new software development ecosystem:

The open source model of openness, equality, collaboration and sharing accelerates software iteration and upgrading, promotes production-use collaborative innovation and improves industrial ecology, making it the leading model of global software technology and industrial innovation. … At the same time, open source has opened up a new track for industrial competition, and an open source ecosystem based on mass research, mass application and mass innovation by global developers is accelerating.

Lay a solid foundation and prosper the open source ecosystem

As open source has become the trend of global software development, one of the major tasks in the plan is to flourish the open source ecosystem in China.

Wang Weiwei, director of the Software Industry Division of the Information Technology Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, answered a reporter’s question about “What work has been done on the domestic open source software ecology? What will be the arrangements during the 14th Five-year Plan?” When asked, he also says:

In the next step, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will continue to prosper the domestic open source ecosystem, focusing on building open source software brands, accelerating the popularization of open source culture, and strengthening international cooperation on open source governance.

The foundation of these priorities is to consolidate the infrastructure of open source in China: give full play to the leading role of the Open source Foundation and other professional organizations, improve the governance mechanism and rules of open source, promote the concept of open source, and speed up the construction of open source hosting platforms and other infrastructure.

Actively build a platform for developers

In July 2020, the national Open source Hosting Platform project has been put into construction, led by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, led by Open Source China (Shenzhen Aosi Network Technology Co., LTD.). United Nations industrial development research center, information security, institute of the ministry’s fifth, electronics standardization institute, huawei, essence, wave electronics, suzhou prism colorful company, Beijing university of technology, southwest university of science and technology, the common implementation, on the basis of open source China Gitee, establishing the high level, high performance, safe and reliable in China open source hosting platform.

After more than a year of construction, Gitee in addition to the basic code hosting services, but also launched open source code clone detection, open source license guidance and intelligent identification, code continuous deployment and construction, code warehouse security protection and other services.

In addition, Gitee also actively access the high-quality services of other partners to realize the co-construction of open source hosting platform.

The code quality and vulnerability detection services provided by Huawei and Qianxi, and the license compliance detection services provided by Prism have all been put into operation online, and have provided high-quality services for tens of thousands of open source projects, winning praise from the majority of domestic open source authors.

At present, Gitee has gathered more than 6 million developers, hosted more than 15 million warehouses, more than 200,000 enterprises using Gitee platform, 3 million daily active users, more than 12,000 outstanding open source projects and more than 350 top open source projects (GVP). And the number of users and warehouses are still growing at a high speed.

Make progress happen

Of course, we also need to understand that open source ecological construction is not overnight, but a process. We believe in the creativity of Chinese developers and the power of persistence.

Over the past year, we have seen some changes.

Take OpenHarmony as an example. OpenHarmony has become the most active open source project in Gitee for more than a year. There are thousands of third-party open source extension components, applications and tutorials based on OpenHarmony, and many overseas developers have paid attention and contributed. Has gradually formed an open source software ecosystem with OpenHarmony as the center.

At the same time, more and more developers are willing to put forward issues and PR, and developers who are still in school come to actively learn about and participate in open source. Spontaneous open source communities keep emerging, and open source commercial companies are established and successfully financed one by one… These positive changes have Gitee looking forward to the next five years.

Now the open source industry has gained support from the national level. The construction of basic platforms like Gitee provides a stage for individual developers and enterprises to display and a good soil for development, making Gitee a sharing platform to gather the wisdom of Chinese developers and promote technological innovation.

In the next five years, Gitee will work hard with developers to make the open source ecosystem in China more flourishing.

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