As China's first international industry and standards organization in the computing field, the Global Computing Consortium (GCC) has accelerated its internationalization strategy within just two years of its founding, establishing comprehensive partnerships with multiple European and Asian organizations. Following the launch of the Southeast Asia Joint Hub, GCC has taken another key step forward — joining the openEuler Hong Kong User Group, empowering the development of Hong Kong's computing industry through software-hardware synergy.

On July 29, the OpenAtom "Campus Tour" Hong Kong Stop — Open-Source Ecosystem Internationalization and openEuler Hong Kong Launch Event was successfully held in Hong Kong. The event was hosted by the OpenAtom Foundation and co-organized by the Logistics and Supply Chain Multi-tech R&D Centre (LSCM) and the OpenAtom openEuler Community. It brought together representatives from Hong Kong government and enterprises, higher education institutions, and other stakeholders to explore collaborative innovation between mainland China and Hong Kong, helping Hong Kong build an open-source technology hub that connects the mainland and radiates globally.

Leveraging Hong Kong's Global Connectivity to Advance Open-Source Ecosystem Internationalization

Speech by Xiong Jijun, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

In his address, Xiong Jijun stated that cooperation between the mainland and Hong Kong in science and technology innovation is continuously deepening, opening up broad prospects for in-depth collaboration in the open-source domain. He called on all parties to actively participate as co-builders of open-source communities, deepen integration as drivers of industrial upgrading, and foster openness as facilitators of international exchange. He expressed hope that all parties would take this event as an opportunity to deepen cooperation and jointly promote Hong Kong as a highland for open-source technology connecting the mainland with the world.

Speech by Dr. Ge Ming, Commissioner for Innovation and Technology, Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau, HKSAR Government

In his address, Dr. Ge Ming noted that Hong Kong, backed by the motherland and connected to the world, boasts world-class universities and research institutions, a robust intellectual property protection regime, and a highly internationalized business environment. Hong Kong will leverage its unique advantages to play the distinctive roles of "super connector" and "super value creator," providing a solid platform for China to promote the global expansion of open-source technology and participate in global open-source governance.

Speech by Li Bo, Deputy Secretary-General of the OpenAtom Foundation: "Building a Global Open-Source Technology Application Ecosystem"

Li Bo introduced that the OpenAtom Foundation, as China's first open-source foundation, has 77 projects that have passed TOC review, of which 59 have entered the incubation period, covering areas such as AI, blockchain, and cloud-native technologies, and has nurtured star open-source projects including openEuler and OpenHarmony. The foundation will firmly support the development of Hong Kong's open-source ecosystem, strengthen open-source infrastructure through AtomGit, establish the openEuler Hong Kong User Group, coordinate campus programs and innovation competitions to cultivate local talent, assist Hong Kong in building an international innovation and technology center, and promote excellent open-source technologies to go global.

Open-Source Ecosystem Internationalization and openEuler Hong Kong Launch: openEuler Hong Kong User Group Officially Established

Xiong Wei, Vice Chairman of the OpenAtom Foundation TOC and Chairman of the OpenAtom openEuler Committee, and Huang Guangyang, CEO of LSCM, jointly presented the future development plans for the openEuler community and the Hong Kong User Group. It was noted that the openEuler community, having developed domestically, has accumulated three key strengths: technology, governance, and ecosystem. Hong Kong, as an international innovation and financial center, possesses leading professional services and international talent. The complementary strengths of both sides can create win-win outcomes in industrial transformation, enterprise growth, and talent attraction. Looking ahead, the openEuler Hong Kong User Group will improve its organizational operations, expand its core membership, and collaborate with local partners to accelerate the application of open-source OS and intelligent solutions, while deepening research cooperation and talent cultivation to advance community ecosystem development across multiple dimensions.

Xiong Wei, Vice Chairman of the OpenAtom Foundation TOC and Chairman of the OpenAtom openEuler Committee

Huang Guangyang, CEO of LSCM

Subsequently, under the witness of all guests present, representatives from 22 enterprises and universities from Hong Kong and the mainland took the stage in turn, and the openEuler Hong Kong User Group was officially established! This milestone marks the further opening of China's open-source ecosystem internationalization channel, building a stable platform for long-term collaboration between Hong Kong and the mainland in science and technology innovation, industry, and talent.

Inauguration ceremony of the openEuler Hong Kong User Group

openEuler Open-Source Ecosystem Sharing: Exploring New Paths for Ecosystem Development

At the event, multiple technical experts and representatives from user organizations shared openEuler's technical highlights and application cases.

With the global AI ecosystem tending toward closure and infrastructure monopolization, creating a significant AI divide, openEuler's open-source philosophy aligns with global development consensus. openEuler integrates a full-stack AI open-source solution, adapts to mainstream hardware, and empowers digital upgrades across industries through its open ecosystem. In the future, Hong Kong will be developed into an openEuler global base, helping Hong Kong and global markets achieve technological autonomy and security, cost reduction and efficiency improvement, and improve the open-source talent cultivation system.

Liu Fei, Executive Director of the OpenAtom openEuler Committee, delivered a speech on "Building an Open-Source AI Ecosystem Based on openEuler"

LSCM leverages openEuler's technological advantages in the operation, maintenance, and management system of its Smart Port Community System, covering functions such as platform usage, data analytics, user management, customer service, and dashboards, ensuring the smooth operation of the smart port community system.

Dr. Lun Wanxia, Special Projects Director at LSCM, delivered a speech on "LSCM and openEuler Application Case: Operation, Maintenance and Management System for Smart Port Community System"

SenseTime, equipped with hardware architecture and the openEuler operating system, has achieved private cloud deployment of its intelligent cloud services, supporting various AI applications in online interaction, multi-terminal collaboration, and processing scenarios, effectively safeguarding critical urban tasks including large-scale event security, city management, and pandemic response. SenseTime's openEuler adaptation penetration rate for domestic projects exceeds 90%; six landmark major projects have been deployed at scale in Hong Kong and overseas markets.

Zhang Zhengxiong, Head of SenseTime Hong Kong Technical Service Center, delivered a speech on "Leading the City with Stability: openEuler × SenseTime Premier AI Joint Solution"

openEuler is committed to building competitiveness for SuperPod and Agentic AI, creating a production-grade AI foundation. For out-of-the-box deployment, components can be installed and configured with one click in minutes. In terms of security, it builds controllable, transparent, and recoverable execution environments. For token efficiency, it achieves optimal performance through CPU/XPU heterogeneous inference collaborative acceleration, unified computing power scheduling, and intelligent multi-level caching, effectively solving various challenges in enterprise AI application deployment.

Hu Xinwei, Chairman of the OpenAtom openEuler Technical Committee, delivered a speech on "openEuler Accelerating AI Innovation"

The roundtable discussion was moderated by Ren Xudong, Vice Chairman of the OpenAtom Foundation Open-Source Security Committee. Panelists including Sun Lixia, General Manager of LSCM; Liu Fei, Executive Director of the openEuler Committee; Xiao Bin, Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Hong Mingzhu, Assistant Vice President of Automatic Systems (Hong Kong) Limited; and Yu Ping, Vice President of Hong Kong Runhe Information Technology Investment Co., Ltd., focused on topics such as open-source implementation in Hong Kong, accelerating local digitalization, cultivating local open-source talent, and building an international open-source industry highland. They shared insights from industry practice, exchanged ideas, and sparked new thinking.

Roundtable discussion

Hong Kong, positioned as an Asia-Pacific hub with global market connectivity, provides a critical strategic foothold for openEuler's internationalization. This event gathered industry wisdom and clarified the implementation pathway for open-source implementation in Hong Kong. Looking ahead, the OpenAtom Foundation will leverage Hong Kong's international resources and open environment to strengthen cross-border collaboration ties, promote deep integration of domestic and overseas industry partners and open-source developers, and elevate the global ecosystem expansion of excellent open-source projects such as openEuler to a new level.