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China Daily | English | News | Dec. 12, 2025 | UndeterminedBizdev-Partnering

China has officially launched its first joint venture dedicated to aero engine maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) in the Beijing Capital International Airport Economic Zone. The joint venture, Beijing Aero Engine Services Co Ltd (BAESL), is a partnership between Air China and Rolls-Royce, each holding a 50-percent stake. This facility represents Rolls-Royce's fourth MRO JV and the first of its kind in mainland China, focusing on servicing high-thrust engines such as the Trent series.

BAESL plans to start overhaul work on several engine types, including the Trent 700, Trent XWB-84, and Trent 1000, beginning in 2026. The company targets achieving an annual output of 250 overhauled engines by 2034. The joint venture aims to enhance maintenance reliability and efficiency for Air China’s fleet while supporting Rolls-Royce’s 2030 goals for global MRO capacity expansion and localized growth.

The Beijing Capital International Airport Economic Zone, where BAESL operates, is a significant aviation hub that hosts over 20 maintenance enterprises. These companies generate approximately 14 billion yuan in annual industrial output, representing about 20 percent of China’s national total in this sector.

【好评中国】超500万件！中国创新彰显发展底气

China Daily | Local Language | News | Dec. 12, 2025 | UndeterminedTech Development/Adoption

China has surpassed 5 million domestically valid invention patents, becoming the first country to do so, and has led the world in PCT international patent applications for six consecutive years. This milestone reflects significant advancements in scientific and technological innovation, which form a key foundation of China's "15th Five-Year" plan aimed at accelerating self-reliance and strengthening productive forces through high-level scientific development.

The rapid progress in innovation is closely linked to strengthened intellectual property (IP) protection, which encourages investment and risk-taking by innovators. Over the past five years, efforts have focused on converting patent stock, particularly from universities and research institutions, into practical applications, establishing coordination mechanisms among industry, academia, and research, and creating a favorable innovation environment. By mid-2025, China achieved 15.3 high-value invention patents per 10,000 people, exceeding the previous five-year plan's target ahead of schedule.

China's technological breakthroughs now include global leadership in 5G patents, major space missions such as "Chang'e" and "Tianwen," and the expansion of advanced high-speed rail technology. The country's smart vehicle industry is also entering overseas markets, showcasing deep cultivation in core fields of science and technology. These achievements demonstrate China's growing capability to overcome technological barriers and lead in innovation.

Looking forward, China emphasizes the need to continue pursuing core technologies through focused research, strategic planning of future industries, optimizing the innovation ecosystem, and providing adequate support and respect for scientific talent. This approach aims to convert scientific and technological innovation from quantitative growth to qualitative improvements, enhancing industrial development, national strength, and public welfare, thereby securing China's long-term development confidence.

开源模式重构产业竞争格局

Guangming Daily | Local Language | News | Dec. 12, 2025 | UndeterminedTech Development/Adoption

As of the end of 2024, China's active open source projects have surpassed 3 million with 2.27 million active developers, creating a large and diverse talent pool. The openEuler community, nurtured by the OpenAtom Open Source Foundation, boasts over 2,100 member organizations, 23,000 global contributors, and over 5.5 million users. By the end of 2025, openEuler OS installations are expected to exceed 16 million, making it a leading digital intelligence platform across key Chinese industries such as telecommunications, government, finance, and energy.

Open source technology is recognized as a key driver of technological innovation and high-quality development, particularly in the AI era with large models. China leads in open source large AI models, including Qwen and DeepSeek, while open hardware architectures like RISC-V are rapidly advancing and expected to enable next-generation AI computing power, fueling China’s independent innovation beyond Moore's Law.

Inspur General Software highlights the maturity of the open source ecosystem, with projects like HarmonyOS and openEuler achieving significant scale and wide industry adoption in areas such as finance and aerospace. The recent open sourcing of 360 Group’s FG-CLIP2 model, which outperformed global tech giants in public AI benchmarks, exemplifies China’s competitive progress in AI foundational models.

The UBML open source project under Inspur supports low-code development by lowering barriers for SMEs to create customized applications, promoting efficient innovation circulation across the industry. Beijing Yizhuang has established a national-level open source ecosystem with strong government support through policies and initiatives like the AI open source root community “Moli Ark,” which hosts thousands of models and datasets to enhance innovation impact globally.

The OpenAtom Foundation advances open source through project incubation, talent development, cultural promotion, and community standardization. Experts project open source will continue to fuel China’s collaborative innovation in AI, chip design, and industrial ecosystems, contributing to global digital transformation. The future evolution of open source communities will hinge on integrating large model capabilities to create intelligent development ecosystems emphasizing collaboration, value feedback, and monetization through commercial applications.