Chongqing Aims to Cultivate 50,000 Developers in Five Years, Establishing a Nationally Influential OpenHarmony Application Innovation Hub

On April 14, the Chongqing Economic and Information Commission released the Work Plan for Accelerating the Construction of an OpenHarmony Application Innovation Ecosystem in Chongqing (hereinafter referred to as the Plan), outlining a "one alliance, three platforms, and N scenarios" framework to accelerate OpenHarmony's adoption and deployment across the city and to establish a nationally influential OpenHarmony application innovation hub.

OpenHarmony, an open-source distributed operating system incubated and operated by the OpenAtom Foundation, has seen broad application in areas such as smart homes and the industrial internet, and is progressively extending its reach into sectors including finance, education, energy, and aerospace.

The Plan outlines a two-phase development goal. By 2027, Chongqing aims to establish an OpenHarmony-featured community, an application innovation center, and a pilot-scale validation platform. The city will accelerate the clustering of ecosystem enterprises, advance the development of an OpenHarmony application innovation ecosystem cluster, cultivate 20,000 developers, and roll out 10 benchmark application scenarios in key sectors such as instrumentation, industrial control, and transportation. By 2030, Chongqing aims to fully establish an OpenHarmony application innovation ecosystem cluster, cultivate 50,000 developers, and become a nationally important base for application innovation, technological innovation, and industrial innovation, fostering a distinctive OpenHarmony ecosystem hub with Chongqing characteristics.

To this end, the Plan identifies five key tasks to reinforce the ecosystem foundation. The first focuses on consolidating platform infrastructure, including establishing an OpenHarmony ecosystem alliance to integrate chip, module, and device manufacturers, building an application innovation center and a pilot-scale validation platform, and offering adaptation certification and stability testing services.

The second is to enhance technical support by prioritizing basic functionalities, compatibility adaptation, and industry-specific development, improving lightweight deployment capabilities, establishing an integrated testing platform, and strengthening adaptation and migration services.

The third focuses on accelerating scenario implementation by prioritizing sectors such as instrumentation, industrial control, and transportation, promoting early adoption in government services and public utilities, and expanding into healthcare, education, and finance.

The fourth aims to improve the talent system by introducing OpenHarmony courses in universities, establishing "school-enterprise consortiums and order-based training programs", and offering employment subsidies and housing support to attract and retain talent.

The fifth strengthens the industrial ecosystem by leveraging Liangjiang New Area and the Western Science City to facilitate industrial layout, building innovation and entrepreneurship communities, and organizing technical salons and developer competitions to create exchange platforms.

In addition, relevant municipal departments will coordinate resources to attract ecosystem enterprises, cultivate leading and tiered enterprises, promote the city's development as a "China’s Renowned Software City", and provide technical support for the high-quality development of the digital economy.

Source: Chongqing Daily