The documents released by WikiLeaks show that domestic Internet information security is vulnerable, which has aroused people's heated discussions on topics such as information security and citizen privacy protection. It also attracted people's attention to domestic operating systems. Many people are asking, where is the domestic operating system?

In fact, the country does not have its own operating system, such as depth, such as Hongqi. For a long time, the country was full of enthusiasm for the research and development of domestic operating systems. As early as 2003, South Korea officially formed an alliance with Japan and South Korea to develop unified Linux standards; in 2004, amid the monopoly doubts of Microsoft, the State Council Information Office, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Information Industry and other departments jointly organized the Linux Summit Forum, which was sponsored by international manufacturers such as Intel and HP. With the support of the government, Lianxiang preinstalled the Zhongke Hongqi operating system for the first time in its commercial computers. The country burned a lot of money, but none of them were recognized by the market in the end.

On July 3, Zhang Ran flew to Peking to attend the information security meeting of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Zhang Ran did not want to attend. Zhang Jingchu was 8 months pregnant and he wanted to be with Zhang Jingchu. However, the boss of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology personally called Zhang Ran and asked him to attend the meeting. He refused and could not let him go to Peking.

In addition to Zhang Ran, there were several mobile phone manufacturers such as China Liankumi, three major telecom operators, as well as some computer experts in this conference.

The boss of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said with a serious expression: "By June this year, Android has accounted for 84.4% of the domestic market. Among other systems, Symbian only has 2%, Apple iOS accounts for 8.6%. Among the domestic operating systems, Phoenix is ​​more prominent, accounting for 4.6%. Now domestic mobile operating systems have serious path dependence on Android systems. Enterprises generally carry out in-depth optimization and development based on Android. Android is now open source, but its core technology and technical routes are strictly controlled by Google. Our operating system R&D companies are always facing Google's commercial discrimination, such as delaying code sharing time and restricting terminal companies through commercial agreements."

Zhang Ran nodded after hearing this. After Century Peak acquired Motorola, the system of Motorola's mobile phones was still mainly Android, but Google provided Motorola with code one or two months later than Samsung, htc and other companies. This had a particularly great impact on Motorola. Getting the code one or two months later means that Motorola's products were launched one or two months later than other mobile phones. With the same configuration, if you go public one or two seconds later than others, it means that you are at a disadvantage in the competition.

Under this situation, Motorola began to fully turn to the Phoenix system, but due to the very weak Phoenix ecosystem, the Phoenix system mobile phone launched by Motorola has received poor response in the market. From June last year to June this year, Motorola's mobile phone business lost $1.1 billion in a year. In order to reduce losses and to obtain more funds for marketing, Hastings sold Motorola's set-top box business for $2.3 billion.

The boss of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology continued: "In recent years, the country has made a lot of efforts to support domestic systems and invested a lot of money, but has almost no results. This is really too difficult. But no matter how difficult it is, we have to do it. Now all the operating systems of our domestic information equipment are in the hands of a few Western companies. The Prism Gate has proved that there are defects and backdoors in foreign operating systems. The country attaches great importance to this matter. Next, the country will set up a special network security and informatization leading group, with the head No. 1 personally taking charge. The head No. 1 said that without network security, there is no national security! It is true. I believe everyone still remembers that the United States attacked Iranian nuclear facilities through the earthquake virus a few years ago. This is a bloody lesson!"

Everyone present has heard of the United States' attack on Iran's nuclear facilities through the earthquake network virus. After knowing Iran's nuclear plan, the United States designed a worm called earthquake network through careful planning and launched an attack on the terminals of Iran's nuclear facilities. The entire attack process is like a science fiction movie: due to being infected by the virus, the surveillance video was tampered with. The surveillance personnel saw a normal picture, but in fact the centrifuge was accelerated and eventually damaged when it was out of control, which eventually led to the damage of thousands of Iran's centrifuges. Rogozin, Russian permanent representative to NATO, said that the virus had a serious impact on the Iranian Bushere nuclear power plant, resulting in the leakage of radioactive materials, and the harm was no less than that of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident.

After the boss finished speaking, the experts at the meeting began to speak. When it was Ni Guangnan, an academician of the Academy of Engineering, he said excitedly: "The domestic large systems and large units generally do not lack money. They give foreign multinational companies an order of tens of billions of yuan. They have no worries. They ask them to use low-priced domestic software and hardware to feel the price drop, and they are still responsible for their own concerns. China's past unspoken rule was to use imported problems and use domestic software and hardware to bear responsibility for their own problems. But the Prism Gate tells us that foreign systems and hardware are not trustworthy.

A few years ago, the country has supported many independent operating systems, but none of them have been built. One is that there is no ecosystem, and the other is that our things are indeed not as good as others. But now we have the Phoenix system, which is very advanced, such as card-style backends, which are not available in iOS and Android. For many years, the country has always hoped to have an independent operating system. Now that we have it, the country must strongly support it. The most urgent task is to build an independent and controllable ecosystem and gain a place in the mobile Internet field, otherwise it will repeat the mistakes of the PC industry..."

Looking at the old man who was slightly excited, Zhang Ran felt a little moved and looked up at Yang Yuanqing not far away.

Speaking of Ni Guangnan, many people will think of Liu Chuanzhi and Lianxiang. Because Lianxiang was born with the R&D by Ni Guangnan, Lianxiang Hanka, which can efficiently enter Chinese characters. Hanka has a high profit, creating more than 12 million yuan in profits for the company in the first three years. During the 10-year life span of Lianxiang Hanka, a total of 160,000 units were sold, with a profit of over 100 million yuan.

In 1994, Ni Guangnan presided over the development of Lianxiang's program-controlled switches, and Huawei had developed its own program-controlled switch a few months ago. However, Huawei's program-controlled switch performance was not as good as Lianxiang. In this year, Lianxiang's revenue on program-controlled switches was 6 times that of Huawei. However, in this year, there was a dispute over trade, industry and technology, industry and trade within Lianxiang.

As a scientist, Ni Guangnan hopes that Lianxiang will establish its advantages with technology as the leader and require computer chip research and development. However, Liu Chuanzhi believes that the most important thing for a company is to make money. He believes that Lianxiang's focus is on marketing and development markets. The two had a fierce conflict because of their concepts. In the end, Liu Chuanzhi squeezed away Ni Guangnan, the chief engineer who wanted to take the technical route, and dismissed all independent research and development projects of Lianxiang. Since then, Lianxiang has never invested in core technology research and development and started the computer assembly business with peace of mind.

In the era of Ni Liu's struggle, Huawei could not compare with Lian, but twenty years have passed, and now Lianxiang is no longer the same level of rivals as Huawei. Although Lianxiang is the world's largest PC manufacturer, it is simply an assembly company with no core technology. Huawei is already an industry giant that the United States is very afraid of.

If Lianfei had first followed Ni Guangnan's technological research and development route, perhaps today's Lianxiang's achievements would not be lost to Huawei.

In Zhang Ran's view, Lianxiang is a living lesson. For a company, it is really important to master core technology. As long as you master core technology, you can be in a favorable position in competition. It is difficult to build a mobile phone system, but no matter how difficult it is, you have to do it. If you don't build a mobile phone system at the peak of the century, there will be no future!

Just as he was thinking, Zhang Ran suddenly heard someone calling him, and when he looked up, he saw the head of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. He looked at him with a smile and said, "There are many domestic systems, PC systems and mobile phone systems, but if you really have hope to do it, there is only Phoenix that has the hope to replace the foreign system. We all want to hear the opinions of you, the head of Phoenix!"

Zhang Ran thought about it and said slowly: "Our initial idea was that Android is very mature. It is unrealistic to directly compete with Android. It is better to seize the preferences of a certain group first and quickly seize the market. We set our goal as a huge group of young women, focusing on taking photos. Because they do not have very high requirements for mobile phone applications, they mainly browse Weibo, watch TV series, and buy things on Taobao. These Phoenix systems support them to meet their needs. In addition, our mobile phones have high cost-effectiveness, so we can definitely quickly open up the situation. We originally thought that in a year, the market share of the Phoenix system could be increased to 10%. Now it seems that it is still too optimistic, and it is only 4.6% in the end. The Android system is very mature and has a relatively complete ecosystem. It is very difficult to break the deadlock, which is even more difficult than we imagined.

Other manufacturers of the Mobile Phone Alliance, Huawei and ZTE, have also launched a number of Phoenix system mobile phones, but the market response is not particularly good, mainly because the ecosystem is too weak. This also makes the number of users relatively small, and many developers are unwilling to develop applications of Phoenix system, while users are unwilling to choose phones based on Phoenix system because of the lack of applications, and operators are unwilling to promote phones equipped with Phoenix system. This has entered a vicious cycle.

If the Phoenix system wants to truly survive, it must reach two lines. The first line is that the market share must reach 10%. Only by reaching this line can the invisible hand of the market command many developers to jointly build an ecosystem; the second line must have a market share of 20%. Only by reaching this line can a complete ecosystem be built and truly survive.

According to the current situation, it is almost impossible to reach a 20% share. Prism Gate gives us an opportunity. Now everyone is asking to develop their own operating system and ensure national privacy. However, the severe situation we are facing has not changed. Now everyone is calling for domestic systems, but many people just shout, but when choosing a mobile phone, they still choose Android. Because there are more applications, it is still impossible to achieve a market share of 20%. If Phoenix cannot increase its market share within two years, it will never be possible to rush up again. Phoenix will be like BlackBerry and other systems, under the Android offensive, and slowly move towards death. Therefore, we need support from the national level!”

The boss of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology looked at Zhang Ran and asked, "What kind of support do you want?"

Zhang Ran said two words: "Fair!"

The boss of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology was stunned: "Fair?"

Zhang Ran nodded and said, "Yes, it's fair!" He turned to look at the boss of the three major operators and said slowly: "Phoenix is ​​not an epoch-making product like iOS, which is similar to Android's user experience. In this case, if you want to seize the market, you can only rely on the cost-effectiveness of hardware, and the hardware cost is the same. To make a cost-effectiveness, you can only fight price wars, either pay high subsidies yourself or subsidies by the operators. Android can grow rapidly thanks to the support of operators. The three major operators of Mobile, Telecom and China Unicom have tens of billions of subsidies for mobile phones every year, which exceeded 70 billion last year. These subsidies mainly flow to Apple and Samsung, and the subsidy ratio of Apple and Samsung is far higher than that of domestic mobile phones. We do not expect operators to lean towards us, as long as they can treat them equally!"
Chapter completed!