This is the new version of the Chinese.
With us, it took a while for the penny to drop, but the significant point is that the stone on the right centre is one point less extended than in the usual Chinese fuseki. What was more of a surprise is that this plausible-looking opening has hardly ever been tried, but it has become rather fashionable among a certain smart set in the past couple of years.
This is not made plain in the Go World article, but the first instance we have of Black's opening shape in the GoGoD database is from 1973 when Otake Hideo played it against Sakata Eio. Conceivably stone 5 was carelessly misplaced there, but more likely it was a tight play in response to Sakata's formation for White of two three-three points rather than two four-four points as here.
Black's position appeared very sporadically in the later stages of some games, but the next occurrence of it as a proper opening was by Liu Shizhen against Li Zhe in the Chinese Mingren in 2004. Then it went back into hibernation, until Kono Rin himself revived it late in 2007. His first trial seems to have been against Kobayashi Satoru. He won that game and tried it several more times. The most conspicuous example was probably in the 33rd Tengen final when he tried it, unsuccessfully, against Yamashita Keigo.
Having attracted the attention of other players, it began appearing elsewhere. Takao Shinji endorsed it, and in China even Chang Hao gave it a whirl, as did a few other Chinese players. In Japan, Cho U no less was willing to give it a try in even as important a game as the Oza Challengers' Final in September 2008 - but as White against Iyama Yuta! This example, apparently the first case where the shape appears as White's first three moves, began as shown below. Cho won. He essayed it with equal success a few days later against Yuki Satoshi (who used the same Black formation as in the diagram).
Kono has kept faith with the opening as Black, and Cho U likewise with the opening as White. Kono even tried it twice against Yi Se-tol, including in their game at the 1st WMSG. A few other major Japanese players have taken it up and a tiny handful of lower grade Chinese players have experimented with it in desultory fashion. Remarkably, we have not a single example of a Korean player using it. That is remarkable also because of the name attached to the opening in Go World