Last week, an account affiliated with the National Administration of State Secrets Protection warned of the security risks of the open-source project OpenClaw and urged government agencies to exercise extreme caution, given its rapidly rising downloads from Chinese IP addresses and the fact that views of Chinese-language documents have exceeded those of all other non-English languages since January.

　　On February 5, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a security alert warning of risks related to OpenClaw. The alert stated that monitoring had found certain OpenClaw deployments, under default or improper configurations, triggered relatively high security risks, making them highly susceptible to cyberattacks and information leakage.

　　Still, the potential opportunities brought by the OpenClaw did not go unnoticed by some Chinese localities.

　　South China technology hub Shenzhen"s Longgang district government recently rolled out a draft action plan on supporting the development of OpenClaw, seeking public input. The proposed encouraging measures include cash awards of up to 2 million yuan ($289,960) to developers who successfully contributed key codes in mainstream developer communities.