Focus on the "dual carbon" goal to promote green development
A surprise spot check led to special rectification of "mining"
Our reporter Wu Jing, Han Yadong, Yan Xinwen
A laboratory keeps air-conditioning on all day and night, and 4 miners equipped with 32 graphics cards are placed in the corner by the window and covered by a cabinet-the convenience of using the management computer to work, a professional technology in Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province Jin Mo, a temporary employee of the college, quietly used school premises, electricity, and the network to "mining" virtual currency. A total of 2.4 ethers were dug up in 4 months, with a profit of about 43,000 yuan.
Jin Moumou thought he had designed a concealed and ingenious "game", but he revealed his stuff during a surprise inspection.
The inspector found this laboratory based on the IP address, moved the cabinet along the network cable, and found a row of fast-moving "mining machines".
Recently, the Zhejiang Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Provincial Party Committee’s Cyberspace Administration and other departments formed a joint inspection team to conduct random inspections without prior notice, no greetings, no reports, direct inspections of the computer room, and follow-up inspections of "mining machines". The 36 IP addresses of 20 state-owned units in 7 regions of the province have seriously investigated and corrected a number of violations of regulations and disciplines that used public resources to participate in virtual currency "mining" and transactions.
The recent Central Economic Work Conference emphasized the need to prioritize conservation and implement a comprehensive conservation strategy.
In the field of production, promote comprehensive resource conservation, intensive, and recycling.
Virtual currency "mining" consumes a lot of energy and carbon emissions, and has a low contribution to the economy. In addition, the risks derived from the production and transaction of virtual currency are becoming more prominent. Its blind and disorderly development is important for promoting high-quality economic and social development and energy conservation and emission reduction. To adversely affect.
Some state-owned employees use public resources to participate in "mining", which is a typical behavior that does not distinguish between public and private and harms public and private.
Starting from the rectification and use of public resources to participate in virtual currency "mining", Zhejiang will severely crack down on virtual currency "mining" and speculative trading activities, maintain a good financial market order, and promote a green, low-carbon and high-quality development path.
1 Sampling monitoring found clues, and the special rectification started from the use of public resources to actively participate in the “mining” behavior investigation, and from the public officials and state-owned unit staff.
In July this year, the Zhejiang Branch of the National Internet Emergency Response Center found in a sample monitoring that 4,699 IP addresses in Zhejiang had “mining” behaviors, of which 183 IP addresses involved 78 state-owned units.
Virtual currency "mining" and speculation transactions violate the new development concept, affect carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and disrupt the normal economic and financial order.
Relevant departments in Zhejiang Province have analyzed the characteristics and hazards of virtual currency "mining" behavior through concentrated research and judgment: "mining" has evolved into a competition of computing power. Driven by profits, the hardware is constantly updated and upgraded, and the number of mining machines continues to grow, 24 hours a day. Power-on consumption is huge, which indirectly brings a lot of carbon emissions; registration and transaction servers are set up overseas, and mining machines participate in "mining" after setting up procedures through the Internet, which is easy to cause network security issues; virtual currency user accounts are anonymous, and the transaction process is anonymous , Assets are difficult to freeze, it is easy to disrupt the normal economic and financial order, and it is easy to become a tool for illegal and criminal activities such as illegal transfer of assets and money laundering.
Those who actively participate in "mining" using public resources must be resolutely investigated and punished and held accountable.
Zhejiang found the right cut and issued a notice on rectifying the use of public resources to participate in virtual currency "mining" and trading activities, first focusing on the use of public resources such as state-owned units' premises, equipment, electricity, and traffic to actively "mining" activities. Government agencies, state-owned enterprises and public institutions should start with strict control from public officials and state-owned employees.
Discipline inspection and supervision organs play a supervisory and promoting role to provide a strong guarantee for Zhejiang to fully implement the new development concept.
Virtual currency "mining" and speculation transactions have a long industry chain and strong professionalism. From mining machine production, industry access, dual control of energy consumption, data monitoring, to cracking down on illegal transactions, multiple regulatory agencies are involved.
In view of the long-term complexity of supervision, Zhejiang has decided to establish a joint meeting working mechanism composed of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Provincial Commission for Cyberspace Affairs at the provincial level to adhere to open collaboration and joint management.
According to the deployment, the Provincial Party Committee’s Office of Cyberspace Affairs will take the lead, and the relevant departments will be responsible in stages. Special rectification will be promoted in four stages: preliminary preparation, self-examination and self-correction, key supervision, and establishment of regulations.
All functional departments give full play to their functional roles and technical advantages, comprehensively use the results of digital reforms and existing work mechanism platforms to simultaneously follow up various aspects of monitoring and early warning, supervision and inspection, strengthened supervision, and policy control to form a combined force for rectification.
2 Do not say hello, do not listen to reports, directly check the computer room, follow the line to check "mining machines", and random check 36 IP addresses of 20 key units in 7 regions of the province
In the sampling monitoring link, the Zhejiang Branch of the National Internet Emergency Response Center analyzed the IP addresses with "mining" behaviors and locked the relevant units, but there are still three "uncertainties": IP addresses can correspond to a specific unit, but they cannot Corresponding to a specific computer, whether it is "mining" with a unit server or its own mining machine is "mining", it is impossible to determine; behind an IP address is a "mining machine" or a cluster "mining farm", It is impossible to determine how many "mining machines" are actually involved, how many "coins" are mined, and how long the duration is; it is impossible to determine whether the IP address is actively "mining", or is passively running a "mining" program, or is engaged in scientific research. .
The three "uncertainties" are difficult to grasp through remote monitoring methods, and the units involved must cooperate with the testing and provide parameters to confirm them.
Relevant departments research and judge that if the 183 public-related "mining" IP addresses are actively involved in "mining", the unit's information technology personnel will use the unit's server to "mining", or the unit's internal personnel will bring their own mining machines to use the unit's network" The probability of "mining" is higher.
"Mining machines" access overseas "mining pools" through the Internet to calculate and produce virtual currency, generally keeping records of cross-border browsing.
After the National Internet Emergency Response Center monitors and locks the IP address of the "mining machine", the communications management department checks the corresponding unit, and then through the door-to-door inspection, the specific "mining machine" and personnel can be locked.
Taking into account the fact that the “mining” of the unit’s information technology personnel is easy to hide and smear, and the internal personnel of the unit’s own mining machine is easy to destroy and transfer, etc., the relevant person in charge of the Zhejiang Commission for Discipline Inspection conducted an analysis directly by each unit. Self-correction may leak rectification information in advance, resulting in the transfer of mining machines or the destruction of records, making it difficult to determine the target and fix the evidence.
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From September 6th to 9th, Zhejiang Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Provincial Party Committee’s Cyberspace Administration and other departments mobilized 24 capable personnel and technical experts to form 4 joint inspection teams, which dealt with 36 key units in 7 regions of the province. Spot checks on IP addresses.
The visits and inspections were organized and carried out in the name of cyber security joint inspections, with the cooperation and participation of the local cybersecurity and informatization departments of the units being inspected and the Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision.
The joint inspection team carried out inspections without prior notice, no greetings, no reports, direct inspections of the computer room, and follow-up inspections of "mining machines". The joint inspection team also used methods such as inquiries and conversations, reading the ledger, and on-site evidence collection to fix evidence to prevent Someone deletes network security logs or transfers miners.
For example, Huang Moumou, deputy director of the Informatization Office of a college affiliated to a university in Zhejiang, deliberately deleted server log information after using the college computer to "mining" virtual currency.
The inspection team combined network logs and password modification records, and the lock operator was Huang Moumou himself.
On-site inspections revealed that 14 family members of 20 units actively “mined”.
"Mining" personnel are mainly network administrators or related technical personnel who are familiar with the network and computer technology.
For example, a certain university in Zhejiang verified that there were 6 IP addresses participating in the “mining” behavior, all of which used the laboratory’s public computer or personal computer to directly run the “mining” program software to actively “mining”.
In addition, many units have been remotely controlled public computers and passively run "mining" programs due to Trojan horse viruses or the use of weak passwords and passwords.
3 Supervise and guide 78 units suspected of using public resources to "mining" in the province to carry out self-examination and self-correction, so as to supervise and promote the full coverage of governance
In September of this year, the National Development and Reform Commission and other 11 departments issued a notice on rectifying virtual currency "mining" activities, clearly strengthening the supervision of the entire industry chain of the upstream and downstream of virtual currency "mining" activities, and prohibiting new virtual currency "mining" Projects, speed up the orderly exit of existing projects, promote the optimization of the industrial structure, and help achieve carbon peak and carbon neutral goals on schedule.
Zhejiang Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision followed up in a timely manner, promoted full coverage of governance by supervising full coverage, continuously amplified the effects of special rectification, and urged functional departments to focus on the "dual carbon" goal, and crack down on virtual currency "mining" activities more thoroughly and resolutely. Good green, low-carbon and high-quality development path.
Supervise the deployment of comprehensive rectification across the province.
After the notice on rectifying virtual currency "mining" activities was issued, the Zhejiang Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection has guided and urged the Provincial Development and Reform Commission to carry out the province's rectification of virtual currency "mining" activities, spreading it to industries, industries, enterprises and the entire society.
Simple calculation compared with the proportion of state-owned units, all IP addresses suspected of “mining” in the province have been rectified in place, which can promote daily power saving of about 148,500 kWh, daily reduction of about 60 tons of standard coal, and annual reduction of 21,900 tons. About 54,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions are emitted.
Highlight key points, self-examination and self-correction.
The 78 units in the province suspected of using public resources to "mining" carried out self-examination and self-correction, ascertained the situation and dealt with it, and carried out party discipline and regulations education by inference.
State-owned units investigated more than 500 personal computers, servers and other terminals, seized 68 “mining machines” and more than 260 stand-alone machines, and verified 12 virtual currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Monero and Magpie coins.
Differentiate the situation and check accurately.
Carefully identify the active, passive, and scientific “mining” situations, and deal with them separately.
A total of the province’s investigations found that 34 state-owned units had active “mining” situations, and 32 units’ mainframes or network equipment had passive “mining” situations due to Trojan horse infections. 48 people who actively “mined” using public resources were investigated and punished. There were 21 staff in government agencies, state-owned enterprises and institutions, 7 people were given party disciplinary and government sanctions, and more than 70 people were interviewed, criticized and educated.
Supervise and urge the strict implementation of the cyber security responsibility system for units that passively "mine" infected with Trojan horse viruses.
For example, Ding Moumou, the computer room manager of the Vocational Education Center in Shangyu District, Shaoxing, and He Moumou, a labor dispatcher, used office computers to purchase 3 "mining machines" and placed them in the information technology building, and engaged in the mining of raven coins for 111 days. With a profit of 15,000 yuan, Ding Moumou received a warning from the party and deducted the performance appraisal award for 3 months; He Moumou was dismissed.
Mr. Yu, deputy director of the geographic information center of a public institution under the Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning of Huzhou City, and Mr. Wu, a staff member, used office computers to "mining" and mined 0.03 and 0.76 ETH respectively (the value of the coin was at the time of seizure) 22560 yuan each), Yu was criticized and educated and ordered to conduct an inspection and deducted one quarterly performance appraisal bonus. Wu received a warning from the party and deducted three quarterly performance appraisal bonuses.
Supervise and guide the transformation and upgrading of enterprises.
Supervise the Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology to implement industry supervision responsibilities, follow up on the production and sales of the 4 "mining" equipment-related companies discovered in the early stage, strengthen the positive guidance for the development of blockchain technology applications, and promote the transformation and upgrading of enterprises.
Up to now, the four companies have no longer engaged in the production and sales of "mining machines".
4 Improve the normalized monitoring and crackdown work mechanism, and seriously hold accountable entities and individuals that fail to conduct self-examination and self-correction and continue repeated prohibitions
On November 10, the National Development and Reform Commission organized a video conference on the governance of virtual currency "mining", requiring all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities to take up territorial responsibilities, establish systems, monitor, and clean up and rectify virtual currency "mining" activities in the region. , Strictly investigate and punish the "mining" activities involved in the computer room of state-owned units.
Previously, through special rectification, Zhejiang has severely investigated and corrected a number of violations of regulations and disciplines, forming a powerful deterrent.
However, the phenomenon of virtual currency "mining" has not been eliminated. A few units have not done enough self-examination and self-correction, and the rectification measures of some units have not been effective enough.
The relevant person in charge of the Zhejiang Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection said that he will resolutely implement the spirit of the important instructions and instructions of General Secretary Jinping on the complete, accurate and comprehensive implementation of the new development concept. In accordance with the requirements of the provincial party committee, the problem of high energy consumption and high emission of virtual currency "mining" will be implemented. Effectively strengthen political supervision, work with relevant functional departments to deepen the rectification work, and improve the normalized monitoring and crackdown work mechanism to prevent a resurgence.
Units and individuals whose self-examination and self-correction are not in place, repeated bans, and “mining” behaviors are found to be seriously held accountable.
Supervise the relevant departments to improve policies and regulations, accelerate the clean-up and rectification in accordance with the requirements of staged advancement and comprehensive zero-clearing, and resolutely crack down on virtual currency "mining" and speculation transactions.
Form a normalized monitoring and crackdown working mechanism.
The Cyberspace Administration of Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and the Zhejiang Branch of the National Internet Emergency Center strengthened real-time monitoring and promptly transferred IP addresses suspected of “mining” to relevant departments and localities to form a normalized governance situation.
The Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision has promoted the establishment of a sound virtual currency "mining" project filing system, and through comprehensive analysis of the dimensions of the network, energy, and financial transactions, it resolutely combats virtual currency "mining" and speculation transactions, forming a normalized work mechanism.
Resolutely investigate and punish the active "mining" behavior of using public resources.
Squeeze and consolidate the main responsibilities of state-owned units, supervise and urge serious self-inspection, deal with it quickly and rigorously, and carry out education on cyber security and party discipline and regulations, and establish and improve relevant systems and measures.
For units that did not perform rectification during the rectification period or that “mining” occurred again after rectification, the main responsibility and leadership responsibility should be strictly investigated.
Pay close attention to the work style, liability and corruption issues behind the illegal "mining", and once verified, deal with it seriously.
Speed up the promotion of "mining" work in the province's rectification.
Supervise and urge the Provincial Development and Reform Commission to promptly formulate and promulgate Zhejiang Province's remediation work plan, and various functional departments to strengthen work coordination and information sharing, and form a whole-chain remediation force.
In accordance with the principle that the province is responsible for the general responsibility and the cities and counties implement the principle, guide and urge the cities and counties to strictly implement the main responsibilities and territorial responsibilities, timely track and analyze the progress of the work involving the region, and earnestly promote the implementation of the virtual currency "mining" rectification. .