What the 2020 Gitee Open‑Source Report Reveals About China’s Coding Trends

In 2020, Gitee hosted over 15 million code repositories and more than 6 million users, marking a high‑speed development year for open source in China.

Key statistics include a 192% increase in open‑source projects compared to 2019, a 132% rise in projects with over 1,000 stars, and a 162% growth in participating users, of which 38% were first‑time contributors.

Java remained the most used language at 38% , while PHP overtook Python to become the third most popular; mobile development languages saw a notable rise, reflecting renewed interest due to the pandemic and cross‑platform frameworks.

Rust and Dart continued their rapid growth for the second consecutive year.

Operating systems and IoT gained attention, boosting Verilog’s momentum.

Easy Language showed high growth rates but remains a niche language.

Program and web application development still dominate, with mobile/open‑source projects climbing to third place.

The GVP (Gitee Most Valuable Project) program listed 312 valuable projects by the end of 2020, including 101 projects selected that year.

International open‑source organizations such as HarmonyOS, Linux Foundation, Milvus, Rancher, Serverless Devs, Serverless Framework, and ZStack joined Gitee, fostering closer collaboration with local developers.

Gitee also launched new features in 2020, including lightweight Pull Requests, Gitee Scan, and the DevOps tool Gitee Go, enhancing the overall development experience.