‘Chinese government will replace American software and computers within three years’

The Chinese government wants to replace software and computers in its own institutions and institutes with Chinese alternatives within three years. By 2020, 30 percent must be replaced, by 2022 all American machines and all American software must be gone.

For example, government agencies can opt for Lenovo instead of HP or Dell for PCs, Financial Times reports. In terms of software, it would be more difficult to find Chinese alternatives. The government does not think the Chinese Government Edition of Windows 10 is enough and wants government agencies to opt for entirely Chinese software such as Kylin OS. Those kinds of operating systems run much less software.

In addition, there are concerns about how Chinese PCs and laptops from manufacturers like Lenovo really are. The hardware still relies on, for example, processors from Intel from the US, or SSDs from Samsung from South Korea.

The rules are not public, but FT has been given a description from two different sources. The policy has been given the name ‘3-5-2’: 30 percent of the equipment must be replaced by 2020, another 50 percent in 2021 and the remaining 20 percent in 2022. In total, this concerns 30 to 50 million machines. estimate analysts. With the move, China wants to make itself technologically less dependent on Western companies. This is expressed in many more steps, such as the development of its own chips and microarchitectures at the Chinese branch of Arm.

Kylin OS. Source: Linus PvP