As 2025 drew to a close, tech enthusiasts, developers, ecosystem partners, and public figures gathered in Shenzhen in the Chinese mainland for a grand year-end ceremony celebrating the growth of the HarmonyOS ecosystem and the latest strides in distributed operating systems.
Hosted by China Media Group on December 20, the event shone a spotlight on HarmonyOS – Huawei's all-scenario distributed operating system designed for an increasingly interconnected world. Built to support smartphones, tablets, wearables, and smart displays, HarmonyOS offers a unified development platform and one-stop services for app and device integration.
The road to this milestone has been marked by steady progress. In October last year, HarmonyOS 5 launched as the Chinese mainland's first fully self-developed operating system built across the technology stack. A year later, in October this year, Huawei rolled out a special HarmonyOS 6 release featuring major system and ecosystem upgrades.
Momentum continued on November 25 when Huawei unveiled its annual flagship Mate 80 series. Powered by HarmonyOS 6, the new devices highlight the ecosystem's growing maturity and the seamless cross-device experiences that lie at the heart of distributed OS design.
At the ceremony, speakers acknowledged the developers, business collaborators, and hardware partners whose collective efforts have shaped HarmonyOS into an open, dynamic digital environment. Their contributions underscore a broader trend in tech toward interoperability and user-centric innovation.
As the global tech community looks toward 2026, the HarmonyOS gathering in Shenzhen offered a glimpse of how distributed operating systems are evolving to meet the demands of a hyperconnected era – one where devices of all kinds work together to deliver seamless experiences.
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