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Following revelations of America\u2019s National Security Agency\u2019s global internet surveillance system, combined with a desire to enhance domestic production, China is beating a path towards unveiling its own operating systems in October.<\/p>\n
The Chinese-made substitutes would first be introduced on desktop devices, later expanding to include smartphones and other hand-held devices, Ni Guangnan heads an official operating system development alliance established in March, Xinhau reported at the weekend.<\/p>\n
China bans government purchases of Apple gadgets – report<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe hope to launch a Chinese-made desktop operating system by October supporting app stores,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Ni told the trade paper.<\/p>\n China, naturally concerned about the state of its\u00a0national security<\/a>\u00a0following the leaks by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, which showed that many US tech products were vulnerable to\u201cback door\u201d<\/em>\u00a0peeks on private information, aims to reduce the country\u2019s reliance on well-known imported brands, including Windows, Google and Apple.<\/p>\n \u201cThe recent NSA spying scandal has intensified Beijing\u2019s concerns about its national information security in the era of an interconnected world, in which a limited number of U.S. giants in the hardware and software industries have dominated the market for decades,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Jin Kai, assistant professor at Daejin University in South Korea, wrote in The Diplomat, a website covering the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, it should be mentioned that the US Justice Department in May issued a 31-count indictment against five Chinese military personnel for hacking into the computers of several American corporations in the hunt for industrial secrets.<\/p>\n Beijing\u2019s move toward domestic production of operating systems (OS) anticipated China\u2019s\u00a0decision<\/a>in May to ban Windows 8, Microsoft\u2019s latest operating system.<\/p>\n