How 25 Leading Chinese Enterprises Achieved Top DevOps Maturity in 2024

Digital Transformation and DevOps Adoption

Amid a nationwide push for digital transformation, enterprises are adopting DevOps to boost IT efficiency. The 2023 China DevOps Status Survey shows that DevOps maturity continues to rise, with 60% of companies reaching full‑maturity levels.

DevOps Capability Maturity Model

The "R&D Operations Integration (DevOps) Capability Maturity Model" series, led by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) and formalized as ITU‑T Y.3525 in July 2020, has been evaluating companies since 2018. By early 2024 it covered more than 20 industries, and over a hundred enterprises have passed the DevOps standard assessment.

Enterprises Passing the Assessment (25 Companies)

FAW‑Volkswagen

China Aviation Info

South China Grid

Shandong Lushuo

Haifa Baocheng (formerly COSCO Shipping Leasing)

China State Construction Third Engineering Bureau

Tencent

Alibaba Cloud

Baidu

Lenovo

Qunar

Enjoy Travel

Shenzhou Taiyue

Baoxin Software

Huarong Technology

Softcom Power

Beijing Gas

Haifa Baocheng

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Case Studies

Baoxin Software – Baowu Industrial Chain Data Collaboration Platform

The project supports Baowu’s smart steel ecosystem, breaking data silos and enabling digital operations. After assessment, delivery frequency rose from one release every six months to an average of 4.87 releases per month, automated interface test coverage reached 100%, unit‑test coverage exceeded 85%, and automated deployment success hit 97%.

Huarong Technology – Business Evaluation System 2.0

The system integrates requirement, project, release, and metric management, streamlining the asset‑evaluation workflow. The DevOps assessment led to process and institutional optimizations, improved technical capabilities across demand, environment, configuration, CI, automated testing, deployment, and metrics, and fostered internal engineering and agile coaching.

Softcom Power – iPaaS Enterprise Platform

The iPaaS platform provides a cloud‑native, enterprise‑grade PaaS for rapid application development, offering reusable components and services that let developers focus on business scenarios.

Beijing Gas – Smart Customer Service System

The system creates a unified, cloud‑based, intelligent service platform that integrates all communication channels, enables intelligent applications and self‑service, reduces operational costs, and improves service quality across subsidiaries.

Haifa Baocheng – Whale Yuanbao Management Platform

Targeting supply‑chain finance in insurance, the platform handles high traffic and low‑value transactions with stringent timeliness and user‑experience requirements. DevOps practices built an integrated R&D‑operations toolchain, ensuring rapid iteration and high reliability.

China Aviation Info – Flight Management System (First in Civil Aviation)

The system adopts domain‑driven design, micro‑services, and a cloud‑native architecture with distributed databases, enabling rapid scaling, automatic fault isolation, multi‑dimensional rate limiting, and automatic circuit breaking.

South China Grid – Cloud Yan Platform DevOps Subsystem

The subsystem passed the "Build & Continuous Integration" and "Pipeline" modules at the excellent level, providing code repository, scanning, packaging, automated deployment, and testing to support agile development.

Changjie Tong – Small‑Enterprise One‑Stop Service Platform

The SaaS platform offers personalized, service‑oriented management tools for micro‑enterprises, leveraging cloud services to drive digital transformation and business growth.

Continuous Delivery (Standard 3) Overview

Enterprises demonstrated significant improvements in release frequency, automated testing coverage, and deployment success rates, reflecting mature continuous‑delivery practices.

Technical Operation (Standard 4) Overview

Projects such as China Aviation Info showcased advanced technical‑operation capabilities, including automated monitoring, incident management, capacity planning, and seamless platform integration.

Security and Risk Management (Standard 6) Overview

While specific case details are omitted, assessments confirmed that participating companies meet stringent security and risk‑management criteria.

System and Tools (Standard 8) Overview

Assessments of system and tool modules highlighted effective CI/CD pipelines, automated builds, and robust tooling that support high‑quality software delivery.

DevOps Maturity Model Overview

The DevOps Capability Maturity Model series, jointly developed by CAICT, the Cloud Computing Open Source Industry Alliance, the Efficient Operations Community, and leading internet companies, is recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and adopted by many enterprises across finance, telecom, and internet sectors. The model, finalized as ITU‑T Y.3525, defines a comprehensive architecture covering processes (agile management, continuous delivery, technical operation), application design, security, system and tools, business value management, collaborative development‑operations, continuous testing, performance measurement, platform engineering, and reliability engineering.