Zhou Hongyi talks about Huawei's Hongmeng system: It can be built into an open source system like Android

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On June 26, Zhou Hongyi attended the "2019 Nanjing Innovation Week" and talked about Huawei's Hongmeng operating system. He suggested that Huawei could develop the Hongmeng system in an open source way and make this operating system open source like Android, so that it would become an ecological operating system jointly built by the entire Chinese IT industry and Internet industry.

In his speech, Zhou Hongyi made a new thinking on innovation based on the current international situation. He said that some countries are currently trying to decouple from China in technology, and China's technology must take the path of independent innovation. On the one hand, we must innovate independently, and on the other hand, we cannot close ourselves off. We must learn from and embrace international open collaboration methods, of which open source technology has been proven to be a good example.

Zhou Hongyi further explained that in the past 30 years, major technological breakthroughs have all been made using open source mechanisms. Looking back at the operating systems of Microsoft, Apple, and Android, and even Linux, the cornerstone of the entire Internet, all use open source mechanisms and draw on the open source ecosystem. Moreover, China's innovation and development has also benefited from open source. Because of open source Android, Chinese mobile phones are sold all over the world; because of open source algorithms, China's AI has flourished.

"Looking back at history, I think the open source mechanism actually provides us with a new era of collaborative innovation mechanism. The essence of open source is to connect different countries, research institutes, state-owned enterprises, and private enterprises to jointly create a great software. Therefore, open source is not just a software development method, but actually a form of economic development and an innovation mechanism," said Zhou Hongyi.

At the beginning of his speech, Zhou Hongyi also talked about the ups and downs Huawei is currently experiencing internationally. He suggested that Huawei could develop Hongmeng in an open source way, and make this operating system open source like Android. This would turn it into an ecological operating system jointly built by the entire Chinese IT industry and Internet industry, which would not only solve the problem of system compatibility, but also become a truly Chinese, or even global, operating system.