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Chinese ministries push UOF document format
China’s International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, the Ministry of Commerce, and the State Archives Administration have started to promote the Chinese-made Uniform Office Format standard.
The Uniform Office Format (UOF) standard is a document format for the new generation of China’s office-related software. It uses XML contained in a compressed file container, and competes with the OpenDocument format, which was developed by the Open Office XML technical committee of the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.
The Chinese authorities have past form for developing national technology standards to provide homegrown competition (and de facto trade barriers?) to the international standards-based products of foreign companies.
UOF has been recognised as a national standard in China, but lacks acceptance internationally. It is currently applying to become an international standard, but a merger of UOF and ODF seems difficult to accompish because of structural and markup differences. At present, ODF is promoted by IBM and Sun, and Office Open XML is promoted by Microsoft.
Ren Jinhua, Office Director from the Information Centre of the International Department, Central Committee of Communist Part of China, said that the UOF format was to be promoted throughout the Chinese central government “through administrative measures”. The UOF office software used in the first three ministries are provided by two office software packages, Evermore Software and Redflag 2000. Ren predicts that the UOF standard will be promoted in at least six ministries in China by the end of 2008 and then might become compulsory among other Chinese entities.
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