How DevOps Is Transforming China’s IT Landscape: Insights from the 2018 Shenzhen Summit

Deputy Director Zhang Xueli delivers opening remarks at the DevOps International Summit Shenzhen 2018

On November 2, 2018, the DevOps International Summit (DOIS) held its Shenzhen session, featuring a lively atmosphere. Zhang Xueli, Deputy Director of the Cloud Computing and Big Data Institute of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), addressed the audience, emphasizing the significance of DevOps in the digital, networked, and intelligent era.

She noted that information technology now permeates every sector of the national economy, driving transformation of traditional industries, accelerating economic restructuring, and meeting the growing material and cultural needs of the public. Improving the efficiency and quality of information construction and management has become a priority across industries.

With the maturation of containers, micro‑services, and cloud computing, software production is shifting from siloed departmental workflows to collaborative models, giving rise to DevOps. This paradigm has dramatically increased software delivery efficiency and quality, reducing release cycles from three‑to‑six‑month intervals to weekly, daily, or even faster releases, enabling organizations to adapt business strategies swiftly and gain market advantage.

DevOps promotes a culture of cooperation and shared success, aligning with China’s goal of building a harmonious society and representing an inevitable outcome of IT development. According to CAICT research, by the first half of 2018, nearly 80 % of enterprises had adopted open‑source automation tools, a figure expected to keep rising.

In line with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s "Three‑Year Action Plan for Cloud Computing Development (2017‑2019)", CAICT has coordinated with the Cloud Computing Industry Alliance and the Efficient Operations Community to draft the nation’s first DevOps series standards – the Integrated Development‑Operations Capability Maturity Model. This model covers eight areas: agile development management, continuous delivery, technical operations, application design, security and risk management, assessment methods, systems, and tool platforms, spanning the entire software lifecycle. The standards aim to consolidate industry consensus, avoid isolated development, and guide enterprises in orderly implementation.

The summit also brings together top experts from telecommunications, finance, and other sectors to explore advanced operations concepts, share the newly released DevOps standards, present assessment results, and discuss practical case studies, fostering deeper collaboration and accelerating the development of China’s IT industry.

About the DevOps International Summit

The DevOps International Summit (DOIS) is the only domestic international DevOps technical conference, guided by the OSCAR Alliance and co‑hosted by the DevOps Era Community and the Efficient Operations Community. It covers the full spectrum of DevOps topics, including lean and agile practices, continuous delivery and automated testing, technical operations, high‑availability architecture and micro‑services, DevSecOps, and organizational culture.

DOIS serves as the official launch platform for the world’s first DevOps standard – the Integrated Development‑Operations Capability Maturity Model – which has been approved as an international standard by ITU‑T.

The summit showcases practical cases and tool technologies from leading internet giants, overseas enterprises, and top industry players, focusing on concrete DevOps implementations in finance, telecommunications, and other sectors.