From August 30 to 31, the “New Scenario, New Experience” Harmony Ecosystem Conference 2025, hosted by the Global Intelligent Internet of Things Consortium (GIIC) and organized by Harmony Ecosystem Services (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., was held in Shenzhen. The event gathered over 3,000 experts, entrepreneurs, developers, ecosystem partners, and government leaders from around the world to discuss new opportunities in the development of the Harmony ecosystem. He Li, Deputy Party Secretary of our university, was invited to attend the conference and, together with representatives from 13 institutions across industry, academia, research, and application, jointly launched the HarmonyOS Talent Leadership Action Initiative (hereinafter referred to as the “Initiative”).

The institutions jointly initiating the “Initiative” include: Talent Exchange Center of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; Center for Student Services and Development, Ministry of Education; Global Intelligent Internet of Things Consortium (GIIC); People.cn Co., Ltd.; Tongdao Liepin Group; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.; Chinasoft International Ltd.; iSoftStone Information Technology (Group) Co., Ltd.; Beijing Institute of Technology; Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University; Shenzhen Polytechnic University; China (Nanjing) Software Valley Administrative Committee; National Practice Base for Outstanding Engineers (Digital Technology); Guoxin Lanqiao Education Technology Co., Ltd.

The “Initiative” puts forward a comprehensive and multidimensional solution for the future development of HarmonyOS talents from three perspectives: First, to unify and promote talent standards for HarmonyOS, improve the position system, clarify capability requirements and knowledge frameworks, and address the challenge of mismatched supply and demand. Second, to build the HarmonyOS talent pool by establishing a linkage mechanism of “talent demand–standard setting–education and training–competence evaluation–recruitment and employment”, thereby achieving seamless integration between talent cultivation and industry needs. Third, to foster a prosperous talent ecosystem by uniting forces from all sectors, jointly advancing the “HarmonyOS Talent Leadership Action”, and creating a collaborative and mutually beneficial framework for talent development.

The HarmonyOS Talent Development Promotion Working Group stated that the “Initiative” jointly launched by 14 institutions presents clear, specific, and significant measures across multiple dimensions, including unified standards, pathways for building the HarmonyOS talent pool, and collaborative sharing of the talent ecosystem. This means that the recruitment, training, and joint development of HarmonyOS talent will now have more scientific and standardized guidelines to follow, ensuring closer alignment between talent development and the practical needs of the HarmonyOS ecosystem, thereby elevating talent supply to a new stage of high-quality and efficient growth.

The joint release of the “Initiative” highlights our university’s proactive participation and significant influence in the cultivation of HarmonyOS talents. In recent years, our School of Electronic and Communication Engineering has worked closely with leading enterprises such as Huawei and Chinasoft International. Relying on the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s Mobile Operating System (HarmonyOS) Specialty Industry Academy, it has built an innovative “specialty-contest integration” talent cultivation model, launched the nation’s first “HarmonyOS Elite Class”, and successively developed HarmonyOS courses such as “HarmonyOS Application Development” and textbooks such as Cangjie Programming Technology and Application. Among them, “Cangjie Language Programming” and “Comprehensive Training in HarmonyOS Software Development” were selected for the Ministry of Education’s pilot program for high-skilled talent cluster training (Vocational Education 101). The digital textbook Cangjie Programming Technology and Application was chosen as a demonstration material for this project and was also included in the “Domestic Software and Hardware in the Classroom” program by the Cyberspace Administration of China, MIIT, and the Ministry of Education. In the 2024–2025 Huawei ICT Competition Global Final, faculty and students of the School of Electronic and Communication Engineering won multiple awards, including the first-ever Global Grand Prize in the Programming (HarmonyOS) track.

(Wang Xianchen, School of Electronic and Communication Engineering)