The Chinese government has taken another step towards greater independence from international technology and has decreed that central agencies and state-owned corporations replace their foreign-brand computers within two years. This plan will affect several tech giants and lead to the “culling” of tens of millions of computers.

As indicated Bloombergin addition to the equipment to be replaced, local agencies will also have to change your operating system to solutions developed in the country. The move will further reduce the Asian giant’s tech reliance on companies from countries seen as geopolitical rivals.

Overall, this new policy is expected to result in replacement of about 50 million computers, these are just central government computers. According to sources, the Chinese agencies will have two years to replace their cars.

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The Chinese government’s move came as no big surprise, especially given that the country has already prioritized local companies for deliveries to vulnerable areas. This type of policy is quite common all over the world.however, some countries, such as the US, always prefer to work with national suppliers.

Among various computer vendors in the country Lenovo should benefit the most from this new policy. The manufacturer is the leader of the Chinese computer market and its main competitors, HP and Dell Technologieswho are foreigners will lose access to a huge and lucrative market.

It is expected that this policy will continue to apply only to computers and software assembled overseas and will not affect components such as CPUs and GPUs. The Chinese market is still very dependent on equipment supplies from companies such as MY GOD, Intel and NVIDIA, but in the past few years, local companies have been investing heavily in their own equipment and, in the future, in China should also be independent in the hardware sector..

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Source: Bloomberg, TechCentral.