◎Poplar Yang Guangliang

  The "14th Five-Year Plan for Digital Economy Development Plan" issued by the State Council a few days ago stated that by 2025, the digital economy will enter a period of comprehensive expansion, the integration of digital technology and the real economy has achieved remarkable results, the digital economy governance system will be more perfect, and my country's digital economy will be fully expanded. Economic competitiveness and influence have steadily improved.

The rapid and steady development of the digital economy must start with the orderly infrastructure for the operation of the digital economy.

To efficiently, stably and iteratively build the underlying order foundation of the digital world, blockchain technology will be a good solution, and it will become the "new infrastructure" that is urgently needed to build the digital world.

  Blockchain is the key technology for the development of digital economy

  Blockchain has played an important role in the development of my country's digital economy, mainly in the following aspects:

  First, blockchain is a key technology that lays the foundation for the development of my country's digital economy.

The value of the digital economy lies in transforming the traditional value fixed in the "point" into the value of "chain network", which means that it is very important to realize value transfer in the digital world.

The Internet can achieve information exchange but cannot transmit value; while the blockchain can confirm the ownership of data, solve the contradiction between the uniqueness of items in the physical world and the zero marginal cost of replication in the digital world, and realize the transformation of physical world items to digital The only mapping problem of the world, based on which, the value can be passed and transferred smoothly.

Based on the credible flow of digital assets, blockchain technology will penetrate and expand from industries centered on credit in the future, forming a new format of "blockchain+" covering various industries, and realizing all-round empowerment of the digital economy.

  Second, blockchain is an important link to promote the integration and innovation of industrial ecology.

The digital transformation of the economy is not only about migrating the activities of various economic entities to the digital world, but also the essence of realizing the connection and sharing of data between different entities through the digital world, so as to break through the barriers of the physical world and create an interconnected economic system.

If there is no distributed consensus technology, the digital transformation of the economy is likely to be limited to a limited number of individuals, resulting in the inability to fully release the value of digitalization.

The blockchain will provide guarantee for production coordination, information sharing, resource integration, and flexible management between upstream and downstream entities in the industrial chain, thereby promoting maximum cooperation and co-creation in the digital transformation of the economy, and gradually realizing distributed, borderless The resource allocation mode and production mode of the economy will drive economic development to reduce costs and increase efficiency, and greatly promote the generation of cross-border innovation.

  Third, blockchain is a strong guarantee for building a credible digital business model.

The digital transformation of business and public services is providing Chinese residents with a more convenient digital life experience and digital service system. However, behind the rapid development of the consumer Internet, there are still many problems and crises that need to be solved urgently.

For example, the quality and safety of e-commerce retail commodities and catering food, the privacy issue of medical data online, the credit review issue in the digital housekeeping industry, etc.

The features of blockchain technology that are traceable and difficult to tamper with will greatly reduce various risks in the process of business model innovation and eliminate potential security risks in residents' digital life; at the same time, based on its trust system guarantee, the fields and scenarios of digital transformation of life It can continue to expand and create more digital life benefits for the people.

  Fourth, the blockchain is the underlying foundation for the efficient governance of the digital economy.

The complex and diverse economic activities and business model innovation, as well as the occurrence of uncertain events such as the new crown pneumonia epidemic, have posed major challenges to the government's coordination, decision-making and emergency response capabilities.

The characteristics of blockchain distributed consensus technology are conducive to promoting data sharing and circulation among relevant parties in governance, systematization and real-timeization of scattered and lagging information, thereby comprehensively improving the government's management services and overall coordination capabilities, not only realizing "one-stop service" , and can combine multiple forces to enhance the government's lean management capabilities in various fields.

At the same time, based on blockchain smart contracts, a new model of simultaneous reporting by multiple people and global confirmation by multiple parties can be realized, which is conducive to the establishment of an open, transparent and highly participatory social supervision system, enhances the public’s trust and reputation in government governance, and enhances the Government credibility.

  Fifth, blockchain is an important force leading my country's digital technology breakthroughs and innovations.

Blockchain is an emerging interdisciplinary field in the field of information science. At present, my country is in an international leading position in this new track, and is fully qualified to fight for the right to formulate rules in this field.

For example, my country's Shanghai Shutu Blockchain Research Institute has become a global leader in the field of blockchain technology with its self-developed Conflux public blockchain, which is authorized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as the "Blockchain System Application". Interface Specification "International Standard Development Working Group Chair Organization, leading the development of this standard.

Blockchain technology has the foundation and the ability to become an important support for China's scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, and an important pillar for my country's original innovation to achieve transcendental development in the wave of the fourth industrial revolution.

  The future development direction and construction focus of blockchain

  Facing the future of digital economy development, the construction and development of blockchain urgently needs to focus on the following three aspects:

  The first is to vigorously promote the construction of blockchain as a new infrastructure for the development of the digital economy.

Accelerate to clarify the functional positioning of blockchain technology in the development of my country's digital economy, formulate blockchain technology development plans, build a good policy environment to promote the development of blockchain technology, and strengthen the support and support of supporting policies in science and technology, industry, education, and finance. guide strength.

Accelerate the formulation of laws and regulations to regulate the development of blockchain technology, and ensure the stable and long-term development of blockchain technology.

  The second is to strengthen the standard construction of blockchain technology and the training of innovative talents.

Strengthen the basic theoretical research and technology research and development of blockchain, vigorously lay out the construction of blockchain technology standards, and build my country's international voice and influence in the field of blockchain technology.

Increase the training of professional and compound talents, especially to strengthen the training of compound talents who are familiar with blockchain technology and industry application scenarios at the same time.

  The third is to promote the organic combination of blockchain technology and application scenarios and form typical demonstrations.

If the blockchain industry wants to further break through the innovation bottleneck, it is inseparable from the deep integration of technology and scenarios.

At present, many application scenarios have the phenomenon of “borrowing hot spots” and “gaming eyeballs”, and the advantages and cost of blockchain compared with other alternatives have not been fully considered, resulting in a lack of representative cases and the impression of “technical gaudy”.

Only by seeking truth from facts and carrying out demonstration project construction in areas that are really needed and suitable for the application of blockchain, can the demonstration and driving effect be truly formed.

  (Yang Shu is an associate professor of the School of Economics and Management of China Agricultural University, Yang Guang is the research director of the Shanghai Shutu Blockchain Research Institute, and Liang Cai is the deputy director of the China International Talent Exchange Foundation)