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“MIIT’s office issues the AI + Software Special Action Implementation Plan on September 11, 2026 — the seventh documented surface on the Chinese open-source institutional-architecture question that this series’ prior twenty-four briefings have been tracking — making five institutionally new moves that extend the September 6 briefing’s MIIT AI SME Startup Support Plan (31号) on the same unsolved object: (1) the plan formally directs the construction of an ‘Agent Software Application Store’ (智能体软件应用商店) and a ‘Skills Resource Library’ (Skills 资源库), a specific state-directed institutional apparatus for agent-software distribution and skill-pack distribution — the same distribution-surface move this series documented at the Android-app-store layer in the September 3 CAC Qinglang Phase 2 briefing, now operationalized at the agent-software layer; (2) the plan explicitly names ‘independent open-source license application and compliance guidance’ (自主开源许可协议应用与合规指引) as a supported direction, the first administrative-document use of Mulan-family-license promotion as a national industrial-policy instrument; (3) the plan introduces a quality-open-source-project selection-and-cultivation mechanism with open-source project first-release at community (社区首发), an institutional-design move that pairs a state-directed project-selection mechanism with a community-first-release operationalization; (4) the plan explicitly directs that open-source contributions be incorporated into research-evaluation and talent-certification systems at universities, research institutes, and enterprises — extending the September 6 briefing’s star-count-as-administrative-metric move (which placed GitHub-style star counts alongside invention patents and highly-cited papers as one of four national-level evaluation indicators) into a broader research-evaluation-incorporation move at the higher-education and research-institute layer; (5) the plan pairs the open-source moves with a 2028 target of 5+ quality open-source projects (5个以上优质开源项目) and a 2030 target of multiple open-source communities with international influence — the first time a national industrial-policy document attaches quantitative open-source-project targets to the industrial-policy horizon. Together, the five moves document a structurally new institutional-form object: the state-directed-app-store / independent-license-compliance / community-first-release / research-evaluation-incorporation / quantitative-project-target pairing is the sharpest documented formalization of open-source as a state-directed industrial-policy instrument at the national-industrial-policy surface, and it pairs institutionally with this series’ prior briefings’ documentation of open-source at the administrative-control layer (CAC, September 3), the party-theoretical-flagship layer (Chen Kaihua, Qiushi, September 11), the Western-foundation-governance-seat layer (PyTorch Foundation, September 10), and the administrative-industrial-policy layer (AI SME Startup Support Plan 31号, September 6).”

“MIIT’s office issued the AI SME Startup Support Plan 2026-2028 on September 4, 2026 — a 15-item three-year programme that makes five institutionally new moves on the same unsolved object as the prior four briefings (Ren Xudong’s governance-layer-deficit essay on September 5; CAC’s Qinglang Phase 2 on September 3; Chongqing’s 15th-Five-Year-Plan on September 2; COPU’s KubeCon address on September 2): (1) Item 9 formally names AtomGit as ’national-level AI open-source community’ (国家级人工智能开源社区), the first administrative-document designation of AtomGit at the national-community level and a structural confirmation of AtomGit’s role as the institutional anchor of China’s open-weight release apparatus; (2) Item 4 explicitly names ‘open-source community core contributors’ as a new entrepreneurial subject with an encouraged commercialization path — the first administrative recognition that open-source contribution itself is an entrepreneurial subject class in China; (3) Item 13 introduces compute-equity and data-equity arrangements (算力入股、数据入股), an institutional innovation that treats compute and data as equity inputs into SME ventures rather than market-priced factor inputs; (4) Item 4 also explicitly names ‘one-person companies / super individuals’ (一人公司 / 超级个体) as an encouraged entrepreneurial subject — a structurally new administrative recognition of the individual contributor as an SME-form object; (5) the evaluation-metrics clause (last paragraph) explicitly names open-source project star counts as one of four official performance indicators for identifying high-growth-potential AI SMEs — the first administrative-document use of the GitHub-style star metric as an institutional evaluation metric in China.”

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