Beijing planning shift to homegrown tech, sources say

Beijing may be planning a purge of foreign technology from its banks, state-owned enterprises, military and key government agencies by the end of the decade, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources. The push comes after a test of domestic alternatives in the northeastern city of Siping that was deemed a success, according to people familiar with the effort. Workers there replaced Microsoft’s (MSFT.NASDAQ) Windows with a homegrown operating system called NeoKylin and swapped foreign servers for ones made by China’s Inspur Group, they said. China has been moving to bolster its tech sector after revelations of widespread spying by the US national Security Agency.