The phrase is "小米加步枪", which comes from a Mao Zedong speech to the 8th route army and militia when fighting the Japanese in WWII. They had no real government o

The phrase is "小米加步枪", which comes from a Mao Zedong speech to the 8th route army and militia when fighting the Japanese in WWII. They had no real government or supplies and had to subsist off of millet and fight with single-firing rifles to overthrow their occupiers. It translates to "millet and rifles", just as the article said. It's pretty common in Chinese to use a part of a famous phrase to refer to its entirety. Actually, Baidu is another company name that does this.