With the arrival of billion-level scale, Hongmeng moves from breakthrough to victory

► Text Observer.com Lu Dong

The operating system is the lowest level rule maker in the digital world. Whoever masters the operating system will master the interface between hardware and software, the channel between developers and users, and even the right to speak about the industrial division of labor in an era.

However, in the past few decades, this commanding height has always been firmly occupied by a few overseas giants: the desktop era belongs toWindows, the mobile era belongs to Android and iOS. The three major systems rely on first-mover advantages and network effects to build a high wall that is almost insurmountable for latecomers.

The operating system never只是技術層面competition, but ecological competition.Which system users choose depends on how many applications are on it; which system developers are willing to develop for depends on how many users there are. This kind of two-way locking has caused domestic operating systems to fall into“can be made、但It’s hard to live”的困境。

Technology can catch up, but ecology cannot grow out of thin air. Because of this, the country has elevated the autonomy and controllability of basic software, especially operating systems, to a strategic level. Policies have continued to increase, and the industry has patiently gathered strength. And now, a truly landmark node is arriving:Number of Hongmeng terminal devices即將突破1億。

這個看似ordinary numbers,卻是The most critical step in the development of domestic operating systems.

Looking back at the path Hongmeng has taken, we can better weigh the weight of this step. When Hongmeng was born, there was no shortage of questions from the outside world: In a market that seems to have been carved up, does the new system still have a chance? A few years later, Hongmeng responded with a growth curve that almost exceeded the industry’s conventional expectations. As ofIn October 2026, the number of HarmonyOS 6 and HarmonyOS 7 ecological devices has exceeded 90 million, with more than 450,000 available applications and services; more than 140 new devices have been released in three years, the system has completed more than 140 version iterations, more than 23,000 applications have participated in ecological innovation, and user net satisfaction has increased significantly by 36%.

這些What the numbers outline is a complete ecological network covering technology base, developer system, terminal equipment and user scenarios.Huawei Rotating Chairman Xu Zhijun once used“The critical point of aircraft leaving the ground” is used to describe the significance of hundreds of millions of users: when the scale crosses the 100 million threshold, the ecosystem no longer relies on continuous “blood transfusion” to maintain, but enters a self-circulation stage where users, developers and equipment manufacturers empower each other. From 90 million to 100 million, it seems that there is only one step away, but it is a life-and-death line.。This side of the line is the protected experimental product, and the other side of the line is the industrial platform that can generate blood by itself.

Understand this step艱難，You have to understand firstDomestic operating systems once collectively faced a high wall.Before Hongmeng, domestic systems were not without experimenters, but most of them remained in the state of partial pilots and niche use: some struggled to survive relying on specific industry scenarios, and some made limited innovations in the gaps of the giant ecosystems, and it was always difficult to form a large-scale ecosystem with a truly closed business loop.Without scale, developers cannot retain their continuous investment; without continuous investment, a positive cycle of experience cannot be formed. This was once a seemingly unsolvable knot.

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Hongmeng’s breakthrough lies in the fact that it completed this step in the context of the comprehensive collaborative implementation of domestic chips and systems. Chips, terminals, and operating systems are interlocked with each other and mature together within the same independent technology system, which is equivalent to completing a complete process in the basic software industry.“Changing engines on the fly”。Once successful, it will prove not only that Chinese companies have the ability to create independent and controllable operating systems, but also that this system can gain a foothold in a real and cruel market environment and develop a sustainable industrial ecology.

The foundation of ecology ultimately comes back to experience.If Hongmeng wants to answer in the early daysThe question of “can it be used?” Today, the test question it faces has become “is it easy to use?” A noteworthy change is that more and more ordinary users choose Hongmeng, no longer out of a single sentiment of “supporting domestic products”, but truly impressed by the smoothness, intelligent experience and full-scenario interconnection capabilities of the system itself. The five major experience upgrades brought by HarmonyOS 7 point to the most practical experience in daily use: spatial computing brings real light and shadow to digital interfaces; smart assistants evolve from “answering” to “understanding, collaboration, and execution”; Ark Engine keeps the overall performance smooth; Star Shield Security extends protection to the most common fraud risks encountered by ordinary people; and Galaxy Internet makes cross-device collaboration a readily available instinct.

What’s more convincing is that these capabilities have been deeply integrated with a large number of third-party applications, rather than staying in the demonstrations at the press conference. Amap implementationWith the “sound-following” spatial navigation, Dianping recreates a restaurant 1:1 into a 3D real-life space where you can walk freely, JD.com turns products into a 3D three-dimensional form visible to the naked eye, and Kugou Music supports user-defined 12-track spatial audio sound fields.

When top applications are willing to put the most cutting-edge innovations on Hongmeng for the first time and co-create deeply with the underlying capabilities of the system, the signal released is very clear: the Hongmeng ecosystem is over.The stage of “installing the application first” has entered a new cycle of “making the experience together”.Competition in the number of applications is giving way to competition in depth of experience, and this is precisely a sign that the ecosystem is maturing.

At this iconic historical node, the Hongmeng Starlight Ceremony hosted by China Central Radio and Television has been officially announced.December 5th.The weight of this grand ceremony,可以Measured on a longer time scale.

For Chinese developers, the past few decades have been a history of making a living in someone else’s ecosystem:Windows, Android and iOS have delineated the boundaries of functions and also defined the rules for innovation. Developers’ ideas are often subject to closed technical black boxes, and most of the time they can only make limited adaptations and optimizations within the existing framework. This “ceiling effect” has long inhibited the deep innovation capabilities of China’s software industry.。

Chinese developersIt’s not that there are no good ideas, it’s that there is a lack of underlying soil on which to implement them.

The emergence of Hongmeng reverses了this situation. It does not mean to recreate a closed garden, but to bring the underlyingThe “toolbox” and “test field” are open to developers, allowing capabilities such as system-level AI, cross-device collaboration, and unified development frameworks that were originally held by giants to become innovative raw materials that everyone can use. What developers get is not just a new distribution channel, but an opportunity to jointly define the future with Hongmeng.。The billion-level terminal scale gives this opportunity a clear market return, and for the first time, long-term investment can be truly captured by a large number of users.

For ordinary users, this grand ceremony is also aThe process of “being seen”.Every aspect of Hongmeng’s experience is polished by the continuous feedback of hundreds of millions of users in daily use. The system is not defined top-down by a few people, but by hundreds of millions of users.“used”. For the entire industry, this high-profile national event is a public transmission of the achievements of domestic technological independence and self-reliance: it allows the outside world to see that China’s independent operating system has truly entered the large-scale development stage of “mature and easy to use” from the exploratory period of “can it be used”.

For the entire industry, this high-profile event is also a public transmission of the achievements of self-reliance and self-reliance in domestic science and technology.Hongmeng has embarked on a completely independent technical path from the bottom-level technology to the full-scenario ecological implementation. It brings not only a set of operating systems, but also provides a unified intelligent base for the digital transformation of thousands of industries, allowing equipment, services, and data in different industries to collaborate and innovate in the same open system.

Looking back at the critical point of billion-level terminals, Hongmeng’s growth in the past few years has never been a lonely struggle of one company, but more like a long-distance race completed by tens of millions of people side by side.。Users vote with real usage, developers use continuous innovation to support it, and industry partners use full-chain collaboration to support it.

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