Breaking through monopolies
From Never Again
China’s ambition in the IT industry
From recycling the computer waste of the West, China is now inventing a rival to the monopolies of Western technology due to a new method of programming using the Chinese language. For the first time in the international press we bring news of this development. Orange Chen reports from Beijing.
Zhongguancun is the biggest electronic market in Asia. Every day thousands of PCs and other digital devices are sold here. Around Zhongguancun lots of software and hardware companies produce the newest IT products day and night. This is the retail engine of the Chinese IT industry.
But when you enter the market you find there are only two kinds of CPUs sold for PC. Yes, you guessed it - Intel and AMD and as you know they are made by the USA. When you are looking at the colorful software in the market you can also find nearly all software marked with 'run on Windows'. You can seldom find software for other operating system.
You can see how tightly the US control the engine of China IT industry. But now, China is attempting to change this situation and China may even be able to challenge the monopoly of Wintel.
Last year China produced Godson (Longxin, meaning dragon heart) this is a CPU like the Intel Pentium 3. The next Godson III will be a multi core CPU with more than 4 cores and will be more powerful maybe powerful enough to challenge Intel. In order in escape being killed by Intel, Godson now only supports Linux. But several years ago the Chinese government took out a plan to develop Linux and later China’s government claimed to give Linux and domestic software priority in government purchasing.
This year a Macao company named Yellow Sheep River made a new PC with Godson and Linux. When selling it in Germany, the advertising said “say no to Wintel”.
Compared with Windows the biggest disadvantage of Linux is there is not as much software as Windows. But a new Chinese coding language Eyuyan (Easy Language) might change this situation. Previously India had been much more successful than China in IT. A very important reason is that the main coding language is based on English. English is a native language of India but for China this is totally different. So most Chinese people can’t use computer coding language easily. This is a very big advantage for India but this advantage might now be lost because of the new Chinese character coding program.
Dalian hope this program can help Chinese people promote their IT ability to catch up with the developed countries. You can use Chinese and Chinese grammar for coding here. This is very easy for ordinary Chinese people to learn and use it to develop softwares. And Eyuyan supports Linux so it can develop software for Linux very easily. China has more than 1.3 billon people so if ordinary Chinese people can easily develop soft wares for Linux then there should soon be enough soft wares for Linux.
If we use a CPU made in USA and operating system made by US, or at least you use Office software made by the US how can we ensure of the security of our nation? Until we have a PC that uses

our own CPU and our own operating system, with software developed by Chinese coding language, then we can't ensure there are no spies in our computer. Today information security is very important for a country.
The founder of Easy Language has no formal computer training, he taught himself how to use a computer, so it is hoped that Easy Language will help ordinary Chinese people to gain IT abilities more easily and this will help the Chinese to develop more software.
The idea of Easy language is to use Chinese coding language to make software for the Chinese. We have such a huge country and rapid economy developing we have a strong desire for local software. And this way is also good for the security of IT industry and security of China.
One of China’s the poorest provinces - Ningxia province was the first province to add this Chinese coding language course to their primary education. I think this province has the same thought as India - we can use IT industry to escape industrialization and enter the information society directly. We can use human intelligence to develop economy more directly and easily.
China has a strong enough CPU — Dragon Heart. We have a powerful and easy to use operating system, Linux, for the desktop. Now we have a coding language and this is the final ingredient we need to establish the whole independent IT industry of China.
