Huawei debuts HarmonyOS PC operating system, a major breakthrough in China's tech independence: expert

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(Global Times) 10:00, May 09, 2025

"Heartfelt congratulations on these new achievements in China's domestic system," said another Chinese netizen on Sina Weibo.

Officially launched in 2019, HarmonyOS was first installed on smartphones in 2021. In September 2023, Huawei announced the full-scale launch of HarmonyOS applications. This means that the HarmonyOS will use a completely self-developed "kernel" and no longer rely on the open-source code of other operating systems during the development process, the People's Daily reported.

The HarmonyOS ecosystem is used on 1 billion devices, with 7.2 million registered developers and more than 110 million lines of code, according to the report.

(Web editor: Tian Yi, Zhong Wenxing)