China Open Source Daily — 2026-10-30
On 2026-10-24, at the 2026 Global Governance Forum in Xiongan, Foreign Minister Wang Yi released the two-year progress report of China’s AI Capacity Building Inclusive Plan, issued by the Global AI Innovation Governance Centre on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs domain. Read end to end it is not a technical document. Its ten actions carry ten numbered cases, and exactly one of them is an open-source artefact — FlagOS, a multi-chip system software stack supporting 21 chip vendors and 1,454 operators. The other nine are platforms, deployments, seminars, toolkits and statements, culminating in WAICO, signed at Shanghai on 2026-07-16 by 29 states and now holding 38 founding members, described in the report as the first intergovernmental organisation in the AI field. The document’s fourth lesson states the thesis plainly — openness is the precondition for inclusive development — and then, in the same paragraph, says what is missing: toolchains, test environments and related support that remain to be built. Verified against the report’s own inventory, and set beside two documents from the same fortnight at other registers: a MOFCOM think tank arguing in China Daily on 2026-10-13 that permissive licences and stable release cadence, not platform-building, are what produced Qwen’s 150,000-plus derivatives; and the 2026-10-20 State Council Information Office briefing where MIIT reported the 10-billion-download figure that this series first read on 2026-10-06 as 100 billion. That discrepancy is not a correction but an instruction in how these numbers are made — and it is the reason the checkable question below is about repositories, not figures.