On August 21, 2023 China Industrial Software Supply and Demand Conference and China (Nanjing) International Software Products and Information Service Trading Expo opened in Nanjing. More than 600 exhibitors, top 100 software, top 100 Internet enterprises and key software leading enterprises appeared, bringing together the latest achievements in the development of the national software industry and digital economy.

Jiangsu is one of the earliest provinces in China to develop software industry, with Nanjing, Suzhou and Wuxi three “famous software cities in China”, the number of which is the largest in the country. Last year, the software business revenue of the three cities accounted for 11.8% of the country, accounting for more than 70% of the province. How does Jiangsu keep its momentum and endurance on the industrial software track?

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Open source software is defined as software whose source code can be used by the public and whose use, modification, and distribution are not restricted by licenses. At the Expo, it was noted that the latest development direction of industrial software – relying on open source technology, exploring multiple paths to promote core technology research.

In recent years, with the development of the industry, modern software has evolved from a single model to a large-scale collaboration model represented by open source software. The high quality, low risk and sustainable evolution of the open source software supply chain is related to the core competitiveness of China’s current and future IT scientific research, products and ecology.

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At the conference site, the open source software supply chain infrastructure platform “Source Map 3.0” built by the Institute of Software of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nanjing Institute of Software Technology of China Science and Technology was officially released, marking an important stage progress in the construction of the major infrastructure of the open source software supply chain, and providing effective support for the construction of an independent, controllable, safe and reliable software supply chain system.

It is understood that based on key core technologies such as mass code knowledge, “Source Graph 3.0” has obtained and analyzed more than 140 million open source software, and has built the largest knowledge graph of open source software in China, with the number of entities exceeding 180 million, the number of relationships exceeding 2.6 billion, and the number of code lines exceeding 190 billion. More than one million projects with maintenance risks, compliance risks, and security risks have been found, and innovative applications such as code defect detection, firmware detection, vulnerability perception, vulnerability management, and system integration and release have been realized.

“Industrial software should take innovation and collaboration as the path to strengthen research on key generic technologies and strengthen research on core technologies.” Yu Dingfang, general manager of Nanjing Guorui Xinwei Software Co., LTD. (referred to as “Guorui Xinwei”), the holding company of the 14th Research Institute of China Electronics, said that Guorui Xinwei has built a complete independent industrial software development system and created China’s first end-to-end integrated industrial software for the whole life cycle of products. “We have built more than 20 interconnected industrial software products based on a unified technology base, which is now used in more than 100 enterprises.”

Shi Bo, general manager of Jiangsu Aerospace 7606 Information Technology Co., LTD., introduced that the company carries out technological innovation and research for party and government organs and related industries, independently researches and develops five categories of products including basic general equipment, cloud computing products, password security, security services and application platforms, and successively launches Xinchuang cloud application platform in the public security field of Huaian, Taizhou and other districts. Effectively solve the problem of incompatible operation of various business systems in the environment of Xinchuang.