The GDLUPA founded several Linux Practical Bases, which are learning centers for the university students. "The students will proliferate Linux to the whole country after their graduation," Lo Sanlu, an official in the GDLUPA, said. He also said that the mission of the GDLUPA is to associate with the universities, promote Linux teaching and research, train new Linux programmers, and establish a university promotion system conducted by the Guangdong government.

Guangdong's is not China's first Linux university promotion alliance. In June, the Zhengjiang Linux Center (ZJLC) and more than 70 universities set up the country's first Leadership Of Open Source University Promotion Alliance (LUPA), which established a new open source community, Lupaworld, three months later.

The emergence of the LUPAs and new open source communities is a response to China's new Linux tactic. Shortly after I finished my article China's Linux Disease, Chen Wei, the manager of the Linux Public Service Project Department (LPSPD) in China's Ministry of Information Industry, held a serial of lectures in several universities in Beijing, admitting in public that China's Linux industry was really "diseased." He also said that the government was changing its Linux tactic and "inclining from Linux companies to the open source communities."