China Open Source Daily — 2026-09-07

“Two institutionally new placements on the AAIF / Western-neutral-foundation question in the same 48-hour window — (1) Huawei’s Chief Open-Source Contact Officer Zhang Shanzhou (张山舟, the article’s own name for Ren Xudong’s AAIF-side role at AGNTCon + MCPCon China 2026, Shanghai, September 6–7) delivers the first Huawei keynote on the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) that formally names Huawei as one of the first Chinese enterprises to join AAIF (首批加入 AAIF 的中国企业), offers an L1–L5 Agent-AI evolution ladder with three agent-native paradigm shifts (project / organization / infrastructure), positions openJiuwen at 40K+ stars / 3M downloads / 650 contributors / 50+ industry deployments, introduces A2A-T (a telco-scoped extension of Anthropic’s A2A protocol) and OpenAN (open-sourced with China Mobile and Orange), and closes with a lineage framing of Huawei’s 2015 CNCF founding membership as the precedent for today’s AAIF entry — a structurally new institutional move that absorbs the vendor-official analytical layer’s AAIF-seat recommendation (from the September 5 Ren Xudong essay) into a vendor-official agenda; (2) COPU’s WeChat account, citing COPU Deputy Secretary-General Tan Zhongyi’s on-the-ground confirmation, documents that Lu Shouqun’s keynote at KubeCon China 2026 is scheduled as the opening session (September 8, 09:00, Shanghai International Convention Center) and that CNCF + OpenInfra + PyTorch will jointly present Lu Shouqun with a "Lifetime Achievement Award for Open Source Leader" (开源领袖终身成就奖) — the first-documented Western-foundation-layer formal award to a COPU-named Chinese institutional voice at the KubeCon-China stage, and a structurally new move on the same Western-neutral-foundation question the September 5 Ren Xudong essay first raised.”

September 7, 2026 · 8 min · 3678 words · The Way of Open Source · Kuo Si

China Open Source Daily — 2026-08-26

“CAICT (China Academy of Information and Communications Technology), jointly with COPU (Cloud Computing Open Source Industry Alliance), formally releases the ‘Token Factory · Intelligence-Computing Capability Grading Evaluation System’ — a five-tier (T1–T5), five-dimension administrative-grading apparatus that converts China’s proliferating ‘Token Factory’ compute-facility market from an unregulated ‘price-per-token’ competition surface into a state-anchored, certificate-based governance surface with operational/design dual-track certification; COPU honorary chairman Lu Shouqun (陆首群) is formally invited to serve on the chairmanship group of the GOAI World AI Open-Source Competition (杭州云谷中心, 5-million-RMB prize pool, four tracks) — a structurally new institutional-bridge event converting Lu Shouqun from the COPU-internal governance axis to a GOAI-foundation external-anchor axis, validating the ‘COPU-chairman-as-ecosystem-bridge’ hypothesis with a concrete appointment; Huawei opens the Northeast-region registration window of the Ascend CANN HCCL Communication-Library Innovation Contest (hosted by Harbin Institute of Technology, prizes up to 20,000 RMB plus Huawei fast-track hiring) — an empirical observation of Huawei’s talent-pipeline institution that routes university developers into the Ascend+CANN+GitCode ecosystem through certificates + prizes + employment-incentive stacking, converting ‘community contribution’ into a recruitment-funnel input.”

August 26, 2026 · 8 min · 3805 words · The Way of Open Source · Kuo Si