Author: Qiu Xiangyu
From December 19th to 20th, 2020 CCF Blockchain Technology Conference and the first China Jinan Blockchain Industry Development Summit Forum was held in Jinan, Shandong. The conference was sponsored by the Chinese Computer Society (CCF), jointly organized by the Blockchain Professional Committee of the Chinese Computer Society, Shandong Encore Blockchain Industry Development Research Institute, and Aerospace Information Co., Ltd., Zhongke Guoding Institute of Data Science, Shandong University, Shanda Diwei Software Co., Ltd. and the Key Laboratory of Blockchain Finance of Shandong Province are co-organized by the People’s Government of Jinan City Central District, Jinan City Science and Technology Association, Jinan City Science and Technology Bureau, Jinan City Industry and Information Bureau Strong support.
Sun Bin, Deputy Mayor of Jinan Municipal People’s Government delivered a speech. He said that the number of Jinan City’s filings with the National Cyberspace Administration has reached 15, accounting for 45% of the province. Shandong’s first digital license for blockchain storage and delivery was born in Jinan, an experimental free trade zone. The Encore Blockchain Research Institute established by the Shizhong District of Jinan City, the Blockchain Committee, and Aerospace Information Co., Ltd. has implemented more than ten various blockchain cooperation projects. In the field of blockchain and Xinchuang industry, it is Ranks among the top of the province.
Chen Chun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that on the whole, my country’s blockchain has made considerable progress in three aspects: technology research, industrial application, and regulatory services. In terms of technological innovation, my country’s scientific research institutions and related companies are concentrating their efforts on development, and have achieved tremendous breakthroughs in the areas of on-chain and off-chain data collaboration, and integration of software and hardware. In terms of industrial application, the Chinese government, financial institutions, and technology companies have accelerated their investment in blockchain applications. They have carried out active explorations in the fields of serving the real economy, serving government affairs, and serving people’s livelihoods, and a number of exemplary applications have emerged. In terms of supervision, my country’s current blockchain supervision framework has basically taken shape, and its core idea is the real-name system and the filing system.
CCF executive director Zang Genlin said that China’s digital economy cannot be built on a foreign foundation. It must have our underlying technology. However, the research on the underlying technology requires money first, and polishing, and applications are required to verify these things. The landing is precisely the difficulty of blockchain technology in recent years. It is recommended that experts and companies in the blockchain industry must strengthen their ties with big data, artificial intelligence, other companies, and other industries outside the chain, and link them together to have a future.
Si Xueming, director of the CCF Blockchain Committee, said that blockchain technology is a very young strategic frontier technology that is triggering a new generation of technological innovation and industrial transformation. At present, major countries in the world are accelerating the deployment of blockchain technology and industrial development. The blockchain is becoming a new track of international competition. On October 15 this year, the White House released the key and emerging technology national strategy, and listed the blockchain as US National Security Technology. Blockchain technology is bound to become the new focus of Sino-US competition.
Wang Chongzhen, Deputy Director of the Jinan Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, shared the development of the blockchain industry in Jinan and related policy support. Jinan’s blockchain industry has a strong foundation, and 15 services of 11 companies including Inspur Quality Chain and Shanda Diwei are included in the national blockchain filing list, ranking first in the province in terms of number. The construction guide for the information service platform for epidemic prevention and control based on blockchain technology, provincial and local standards were officially approved and released, and Inspur’s blockchain patents are among the top ten in the world, and it has obtained the first domestic security blockchain testing certificate. At present, the “Jinan Blockchain Industry Innovation and Development Action Plan” has been officially issued, clarifying development ideas and key goals, and proposing that by 2022, major breakthroughs will be made in the core technology research of the blockchain industry, and the blockchain industry chain will be basically sound. The application of important industries in the economy and society has continued to deepen, and a number of influential domestic blockchain innovation companies have emerged, forming a number of replicable and popularized business models, and fostering a very dynamic blockchain innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. Build a blockchain layout that empowers the real economy, technological innovation, and management innovation.
At the meeting, the Shandong Secretariat of the Blockchain Special Committee of the China Computer Society held an unveiling ceremony at the meeting, and the Shandong Encore Blockchain Industry Development Research Institute Encore Alliance Chain was launched online.
Among them, Shandong Encore Blockchain Industry Development Research Institute is a non-profit professional under the guidance of Jinan City Department of Industry and Information Technology, registered by Shandong Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, and with the key support of Shizhong District, Jinan City, jointly established by Aerospace Information and CCF. A research institution dedicated to technical research, industry analysis, application innovation, industrial transformation, consulting, talent training, and incubation acceleration in the field of blockchain. Shandong Encore Blockchain Industry Development Research Institute Encore Alliance Chain is an Encore industry alliance chain platform based on the construction of a central enterprise aerospace information blockchain platform.
Li Deren, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, delivered a keynote report “On Industrial Digitization and Digital Industrialization” at the conference. He stated that blockchain is a product of the interconnection of everything. In the era of digital economy and sharing economy, blockchain is Industrial digitization and digital industrialization will be useful. For example, in terms of advancing the construction of “digital twin cities”, the Internet of Things can be used to build the information model of the city, and then the blockchain can be used to manage the city, and complete one-to-one interactive communication with the real city can be achieved, and it can be online Intelligent control of the city.
Chen Shiqing, an academician of the National Academy of Engineering, made a report on “5G+Industrial Internet+Big Data+Blockchain+Brain Science+AI+Grid Edge Supercomputing Application Scenarios”.
A first-class professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada, a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and an IEEE Fellow, Shen Xuemin made a keynote report on “Digital Services Empowered by Blockchain: Research and Practice”. Chain technology is introduced into car sharing services, and alliance blockchain is used to assist car sharing service providers and users in managing data. Participants of the alliance blockchain can be multiple car sharing service providers, which can be managed by committees over time. Even if each service provider is attacked, security can still be guaranteed. Because it is distributed trust instead of centralized trust, it effectively enhances the protection of customer privacy. Any data access must follow the control strategy recognized by the alliance blockchain and cannot pass the verification mechanism deployed in the smart agreement. The blockchain-based architecture realizes data access records that cannot be tampered with. Compared with a centralized architecture, the use and exchange of data is more transparent. The investigation and responsibility assessment based on the blockchain brings more convenience.
Li Jie, a foreign academician of the Japanese Academy of Engineering, gave a report on “Blockchain-based Trusted and Efficient Internet of Things Architecture Design”. He said that the industrial Internet has high data requirements. To ensure that the data is relatively reliable and safe, the blockchain can be used here. Play a big role. He also pointed out that there are many problems in the Internet of Things, and the structure is relatively rigid. You can consider using blockchain to organize and solve such problems.
Liu Haifa, deputy general manager of Aerospace Information Co., Ltd., made the theme report “Innovative Blockchain Application Practices Boosting High-quality Economic Development”. He said that blockchain, as a representative of a new generation of emerging technologies, is promoting the high-quality development of the national economy. It can play a greater role from the following three aspects: the first is to promote the digital transformation of enterprises, the second is to improve the level of social governance, and the third is to improve the national governance system.
Rong Chunming, academician of the Norwegian Academy of Engineering, made a keynote report on “Redesigning Industrial Internet Services: AI+5G+Blockchain’s New Industrial Infrastructure”. He said that the most important feature of blockchain as the next-generation network infrastructure is the realization of never doing evil to not doing evil. The blockchain achieves multi-party collaboration and multi-party service through a series of interconnected, traceable, multi-centralized, and distributed information aggregation.
Jin Hai, a professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, made a keynote report on “Technical Challenges of Blockchain Systems: Distributed System Views”. He stated that the blockchain has technical bottlenecks in consensus algorithms, network performance, data storage, and cross-chain interaction. The core technology The breakthrough will take five to ten years. He also pointed out that the current data model uses a chain block chain, and the future structure may adopt a schematic block chain. The most recently studied is the DAG diagram, which has changed logically and is no longer a single chain. Structure, this model will be more efficient.
Xiao Zongshui, senior vice president of Shanda Diwei, made a keynote report on “Blockchain and Data Sharing New Models”. He said that in addition to technical support and assurance capabilities, blockchain applications must also have innovative blockchain application models, and truly use blockchain Think about the combination of blockchain and application scenarios. First, high-density value data must be put on the chain so that the social entities that control the data can authorize, and the departments that use the data can obtain data from the chain, and provide the ability to monitor the whole process. Enable data flow to use data in a legal and compliance environment.
Li Huizhong, head of the research and development of the blockchain underlying platform of WeBank, made the theme report “Building a “New Infrastructure” for the Digital Economy, Freeing Data Productivity”. He said that privacy computing is now a very popular research point. However, at this stage, privacy computing is basically It is still in the stage of theoretical research and it is difficult to put it into commercial use. At this stage, under the premise of protecting privacy, how to solve data collaborative production will be a feasible development model.
Zhu Liehuang, a professor at Beijing Institute of Technology and secretary-general of the CCF Blockchain Committee, made a theme report on “Public Chain Security Supervision and Covered Communication”. He said that traditional covert communication is mainly hidden and easy to be monitored. Once the covertness is discovered , The sender and receiver are exposed. Blockchain does not need to specify an address to send transactions, and it is not easy to be locked. It is a good carrier for covert communication.
The conference also set up “blockchain empowering social governance improvement”, “blockchain privacy protection and regulatory governance”, “blockchain independent innovation and new infrastructure”, “blockchain architecture and consensus mechanism”, “zone Sub-forums such as “Blockchain Standardization and Application Practice” and “Blockchain Empowers the Development of Digital Economy”.
In the sub-forum “Blockchain Empowers Social Governance Improvement”, Zhao Fuzeng, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Dalian Taxation Bureau of the State Administration of Taxation, delivered a keynote speech on “Dalian Vehicle Information Blockchain Credit Platform”. He said that the current departments are timely Information sharing needs to solve three problems. One is mutual benefit. All parties are willing to provide this data. The second is accurate and must be true and reliable. The third is security, and privacy data is effectively protected. In the field of traditional database technology, these problems are difficult to solve beneficially, and blockchain technology is the best way. At present, under the leadership of Dalian Taxation Bureau and Dalian Development and Reform Commission, relying on the support of aerospace information blockchain technology, Dalian has successfully built a Dalian vehicle information blockchain credit platform, which is based on taxation, public relations, customs and other parties. Self-responsibility needs to develop corresponding functions to lay the foundation, and then solve the problem of mutual benefit. The platform has been put into operation on Monday, and the first blockchain technology vehicle loan was completed that day.
In the “Blockchain Privacy Protection and Regulatory Governance” sub-forum, Beijing Aerospace Professor Cai Weide said that at present, the blockchain is a combination of transaction and settlement, which makes it difficult to monitor. The next generation of blockchain systems needs to consider them. separate. At the same time, we must also consider adding a supervision mechanism to the blockchain protocol. The characteristic of supervision is that all supervision nodes must be reflected at the same time, and it is real-time information. This has greatly changed the entire blockchain system.
In the “Blockchain Independent Innovation and New Infrastructure” sub-forum, Professor Wang Jinsong of Tianjin University of Technology delivered a keynote speech on “Building a Trusted Ecology of New Infrastructure Based on Blockchain”. He said that the construction of new digital infrastructure can be regarded as a sailboat. It involves various technologies such as 5G, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. 5G and the Industrial Internet can be regarded as the hull of a ship; AI is the ocean wave, which plays a propelling role; the blockchain is a credible support, so that the sailboat can ensure that it reaches the other shore in the correct direction.
In the “Blockchain Standardization and Application Practice” sub-forum, Zhang Xiaojun, the chief strategy of Huawei’s blockchain, said that the current acceptance of blockchain standards is difficult and it is impossible to form a large number of adaptation environments for blockchain. He suggested that in the future, the direction of standards should focus on technical standards and form a standardized model for the problems facing interconnection, intercommunication, hardware, and storage. The development of the blockchain industry needs the help of standards. Huawei is willing to work with all parties to promote the rapid development of standards.
In the “Blockchain Architecture and Consensus Mechanism” sub-forum, Huang Yongfeng, a professor at Tsinghua University, shared a cloud-chain integration interconnection scheme. The entire platform has three levels. The bottom layer is the application support of the cloud platform and blockchain , There is a data plane above it. The biggest feature of the platform is the use of the characteristics of the blockchain itself, including the consensus mechanism, non-tampering, smart contracts, electronic transactions, traceability and traceability. It also comprehensively utilizes computing services, storage services, data services, and intelligent analysis cloud platforms. specialty.
In the “Blockchain Empowers Digital Economy Development” sub-forum, Li Hui, deputy dean of Firechain Technology Research Institute, said that the path for the blockchain industry to land is mainly concentrated in the government, and the government has the financial strength to promote demonstration projects. It is better for companies to start with a little bit of a face-to-face in a certain depth field. In addition, the maturity of the blockchain industry also relies on the improvement of related supporting infrastructure, such as digital identity. Blockchain technology will not exist alone in many scenarios in the future, and it will be done in conjunction with other technologies such as artificial intelligence big data.
