The documents released by WikiLeaks show that the domestic Internet information security is vulnerable, which has triggered heated discussions on the topic of information security and citizen privacy protection, and has also aroused people's attention to the domestic operating system.

In fact, it is not that China does not have its own operating system, such as Depth and Red Flag. For a long time, the country is full of enthusiasm for the research and development of domestic operating systems, as early as 2003, it formally formed an alliance with Dongying and South Korea to develop and formulate a unified standard for Linux; in 2004, in the midst of Microsoft's monopoly questioning, the State Information Office, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Information Industry jointly organized the Linux Summit Forum, which was sponsored by Intel, HP and other international manufacturers; with the support of the government, Lianxiang pre-installed the Zhongke Hongqi operating system for the first time in its commercial computers that year. The state burned a lot of money, but in the end none of it was recognized by the market.

On July 3, Zhang Ran flew to Beiping to attend the information security meeting of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Zhang Ran didn't want to participate, Zhang Jingchu was 8 months pregnant, and he wanted to be by Zhang Jingchu's side. However, the boss of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology personally called Zhang Ran and asked him to attend the meeting, but he could not shirk it, so he could only go to Beiping.

In addition to Zhang Ran, the meeting was attended by several mobile phone manufacturers such as Zhonghua Liankumi, the three major telecom operators, and some computer experts.

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

Hearing this, Zhang Ran nodded, after the acquisition of Motorola by Century Peak, the system of Motorola's mobile phone is still based on Android, but Google provided Motorola with the code one or two months later than Samsung, HTC and other companies. This has a particularly big impact on Motorola, and getting the code one or two months later means that Motorola's products will be launched one or two months later than other mobile phones. For the same configuration, you are listed one or two later than others, which means that you are at a disadvantage in the competition.

In this case, Motorola began to fully switch to the Phoenix system, but because the Phoenix ecosystem is very weak, the Phoenix system mobile phone launched by Motorola has not received a good response in the market, from June last year to June this year, in a year, Motorola's mobile phone business lost $1.1 billion. In order to reduce losses and also to obtain more money 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 state has made a lot of efforts to support the domestic system, and has also invested a lot of money, but almost no results have been achieved. It's just too hard. But no matter how difficult it is, now the operating system of all our domestic information equipment is in the hands of a few Western companies, and Prism Gate has proved that there are defects and backdoors in foreign operating systems. The state attaches great importance to this matter, and the next step will be to set up a special leading group for network security and informatization, which will be led by the No. 1 leader. Chief No. 1 said that there can be no national security without network security! This is really the case, and I believe you still remember that a few years ago, the United States attacked Iran's nuclear facilities through the Stuxnet virus, and this is a bloody lesson!

Everyone present has heard about the US attack on Iran's nuclear facilities through the Stuxnet virus. After learning about Iran's nuclear program, the United States, through careful planning, designed a worm called Stuxnet to launch an attack on the terminals of Iran's nuclear facilities. The whole attack process is like a science fiction movie: the surveillance footage has been tampered with due to a virus infection. Monitors see a normal picture, but in fact the centrifuge accelerates out of control and eventually breaks, eventually causing the destruction of thousands of centrifuges in Iran. Russia's permanent representative to NATO, Rogozin, said that the virus has had a serious impact on Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, resulting in the leakage of radioactive materials, which is no less harmful than the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

After the boss finished speaking, the participating experts began to speak. When it was Ni Guangnan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, he said excitedly: "Large domestic systems and large units are generally not short of money, and they may give billions of yuan to foreign multinational companies for an order. In the past, China's unspoken rule was to be irresponsible for using imported software and hardware, and to take responsibility for problems with domestic hardware and software. But Prism Gate tells us that foreign systems and hardware cannot be trusted.

In the past few years, the state has supported many independent operating systems, but none of them have been supported. One is that there is no ecosystem, and the other is that our things are really inferior to others. But now we have the Phoenix system, which is very advanced, such as the card-based backend, which is not available in IOS and Android. For many years, the state has always wanted to have an independent operating system, and now that we have it, the state must vigorously support it. The top priority is to create an autonomous and controllable ecosystem and strive for a place in the mobile Internet field, otherwise it will repeat the mistakes of the PC industry......"

Looking at the slightly excited old man, Zhang Ran felt a little emotional, and raised his eyes to look at Yang Yuanqing not far away.

Speaking of Ni Guangnan, many people will think of Liu Chuanzhi and Lianxiang. Because Lianxiang started by Ni Guangnan, it can efficiently input Chinese characters into the Lianxiang Han Card. Hanka has a high profit, creating more than 12 million yuan of profit for the company in the first three years. During the 10-year life span of Lianxiang Hanka, a total of 160,000 sets were sold, with profits and taxes of hundreds of millions of yuan.

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

As a scientist, Ni Guangnan hopes to establish advantages with technology as the guide, and requires the research and development of computer chips. But Liu Chuanzhi believes that the most important thing for enterprises is to make money, and he believes that the focus of Lianxiang is marketing and developing the market. The two had a fierce conflict over ideas. In the end, Liu Chuanzhi squeezed out Ni Guangnan, the chief engineer who wanted to take the technical route, and dismounted all the independent research and development projects of Lianxiang. Since then, Lianxiang has never invested in core technology research and development, and has started a computer assembly business with peace of mind.

In the era of Ni Liu's rivalry, Huawei could not be compared with Lianxiang at all, but 20 years have passed, and the current Lianxiang and Huawei are no longer opponents at the same level. Although Lianxiang is the world's largest PC manufacturer, it is simply an assembly company with no core technology, and Huawei is already an industry giant that the United States is very afraid of.

If Lianxiang had taken Ni Guangnan's technology research and development route at the beginning, perhaps today's Lianxiang's achievements would not have been lost to Huawei.

In Zhang Ran's view, coupling is a living lesson, and it is too important for an enterprise to master the core technology. As long as the core technology is mastered, it can be in a favorable position in the competition. It is difficult to make a mobile phone system, but no matter how difficult it is, there is no future if you don't do the peak of the mobile phone system century!

Just thinking about it, Zhang Ran suddenly heard someone calling him, looked up, and saw the boss of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology looking at himself with a smile and said: "There are many domestic systems, PC systems, and mobile phone systems, but there is really hope to do it, and the only one who has hope to replace foreign systems is Phoenix, and we all want to hear your opinion on the head of Phoenix!"

Zhang Ran thought for a while and said slowly: "Our initial idea is this, Android is already very mature, and it is unrealistic to compete directly with Android, so it is better to grasp the preferences of a certain group first and quickly seize the market." We targeted the large group of young women, with a focus on taking pictures. Because they do not have particularly high requirements for mobile phone applications, they mainly brush Weibo, watch TV series, and buy things on Taobao, these Phoenix systems are supported, which can meet their needs, plus our mobile phones are cost-effective, and they will definitely be able to quickly open up the situation. We originally thought that in one year, we would be able to increase the market share of the Phoenix system to 10%. Now it seems that it is still too optimistic, and in the end it is only 4.6%. The Android system is very mature, and there is a relatively complete ecosystem, and it is very difficult to break the game, even more difficult than we imagined.

Other manufacturers of the mobile phone alliance, Huawei and ZTE, they have also launched a number of mobile phones with the Phoenix system, but the market response is not particularly good, mainly because the ecosystem is too weak. This also makes the number of users small, many developers are reluctant to develop applications of the Phoenix system, and users are unwilling to choose mobile phones based on the Phoenix system because of the lack of applications, and operators are not willing to push mobile phones equipped with the Phoenix system. This leads to a vicious circle.

In order to truly survive, the Phoenix system must reach two lines, the first line is to reach 10% market share, only to reach this line, the invisible hand of the market can command many developers to build an ecosystem, and the second line market share must reach 20%, only to build a perfect ecosystem, in order to truly survive.

With the current situation, it is almost impossible to achieve a 20% share. Prism Gate has given us an opportunity, and now everyone is demanding to develop their own operating system to protect the privacy of the people. However, the grim situation we are facing has not changed, now everyone is shouting domestic system, but many people are just shouting, but when choosing a mobile phone, they will still choose Android, because there are more applications, and it is still an impossible task to achieve a market share of 20%. If Phoenix's market share can't be rushed within two years, it will never be possible to rush again. Phoenix, like BlackBerry and other systems, is gradually shrinking and dying under the offensive of Android. So, we want support at 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 spit out 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 his head to look at the bosses of the three major operators, and said slowly: "Phoenix is not an epoch-making product like IOS, and the user experience of Android is almost the same, in this case, if you want to seize the market, you can only rely on the cost performance of hardware, and the cost of hardware is the same, to make cost performance, you can only fight a price war, either pay high subsidies yourself, or subsidize by operators." Android has been able to 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, more than 70 billion last year, and these subsidies mainly flow to Apple and Samsung, and the subsidy ratio of Apple and Samsung is much higher than that of domestic mobile phones. We don't expect operators to lean towards us, as long as we can treat everyone equally!"