Xiong'an, Hangzhou government self-built blockchain bottom platform self-built, outsourced, joined three models who are the future

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After the technology companies have developed a clear path for blockchain governance for the government, the city government began to try to build its own underlying platform.

On November 17, Xiong'an released news that it will actively explore the establishment of a blockchain underlying platform with independent intellectual property rights. Independent intellectual property rights means that in the future urban governance, the Xiong'an government can directly monitor and use the data on the platform.

There is more than one "data awakening". On November 21, the Hangzhou Data Resource Administration Bureau recently completed the construction and trial operation of Hangzhou ’s first government affairs blockchain low-level system, the “government affairs service chain”. In the future, there will be multiple government affairs + blockchain scenarios. The bottom layer support of autonomous and controllable blockchain.

With Xiong'an and Hangzhou as representatives, the government has begun to explore a new blockchain city governance model-after completing the previous part of the technical work, the technology company will no longer participate in subsequent data operation and use. Babbitt provides technology for Hangzhou's "Government Service Chain", but the operator of the system is the Municipal Data Resources Administration, and its construction is considered to be that the Hangzhou Data Resources Administration initially has the ability to build blockchains. Sign.

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In addition, the government-led underlying infrastructure platform may link the previously decentralized blockchain city governance applications in series, laying the underlying blockchain network for urban construction, and coordinating multiple departments and multiple businesses.

From point to surface, many places have started to build their own blockchain city governance underlying platforms

Compared with applications in other fields, government blockchains are dominated by government voices, and landing is less affected by policies and other factors. Inter-chain pulse statistics show that in the first half of 2019, there were 83 government applications, accounting for 20.3%.

On the basis of a large number of government affairs landing projects, comprehensive livelihood and smart city construction (such as transportation, water affairs, etc.) projects, the government has a practical foundation for building a blockchain underlying platform.

Incomplete statistics on the pulses of the interlinks. Since the end of 2017 in Xiong'an New District, Hebei Province, 10 government-related blockchain applications have been launched, and the service targets are mostly in the field of people's livelihood.

The Xiong'an blockchain government affairs and people's livelihood service projects cover a wide range, and some practices are quite innovative. At the end of 2017, Xiong'an constructed the Tencent Xiong'an Fintech Lab; in early 2018, the blockchain rental application platform was launched; in April 2018, Xinhuanet published an article saying that Xiong'an's "Millennium Xiulin" project passed a big data system, Each tree has an "identity card" … In addition, Xiong'an Group also launched Xiong'an Blockchain Fund Management Platform, Blockchain House Rental Application Platform and other projects.

In the future, Xiong'an will launch a personal points system and use blockchain technology to reward citizens for their good performance. And this time Xiong'an self-built the underlying technology platform of the blockchain, or coordinated these projects, and laid the blockchain on all aspects of urban construction.

Experts in the Xiong'an Blockchain field stated that various innovations such as Baiyangdianshui's special blockchain scientific research fund management platform, fintech innovation, sharing economic practice in Xiong'an New District, credit construction in Xiong'an New District, and government service practice in Xiong'an New District In practice, blockchains will all shine. In the future, data storage, source tracing, interaction and right confirmation will be continuously promoted to further realize the innovative application of blockchain technology in many aspects such as people's livelihood, transportation, and energy.

"Blockchain is the new soil for the growth and growth of cities in the Xiong'an New District. It is necessary to integrate the" blockchain thinking "into the urban genes," said Chen Gang, vice governor of Hebei Province. From the vision point of view, Xiong'an New District seems to want to "integrate management" of previous blockchain applications.

(Project drawing by Xiong'an Municipal Government: Mutual Chain Pulse)

At present, society has basically reached a consensus view on blockchain-blockchain is infrastructure. In the future, the underlying infrastructure of the urban governance blockchain may only have one or two platforms on which many applications can be built.

Like Xiong'an, Hangzhou and Loudi are also aimed at integrating business. The autonomous and controllable “government service chain” led by Hangzhou Data Resources Administration has entered the trial operation stage.

The development of Hangzhou blockchain government affairs started late, but it is catching up this year. Hangzhou has built 3 government affairs projects during the year. In March 2019, Hangzhou Metro can issue electronic invoices based on blockchain technology; in May, the Zhejiang Blockchain Notarization System was officially launched; in June, the Hangzhou Internet Court launched a “5G + Blockchain” network-related implementation new mode.

In addition, Hangzhou has also launched public welfare volunteer service platforms and "primary and secondary school direct drinking water system" projects. The nation's first blockchain electronic bill platform launched in June in Zhejiang Province is also helping the development of Hangzhou blockchain.

(Hangzhou government-led project drawing: Mutual Chain Pulse)

At present, the "Government Service Chain" has initially set up 4 blockchain nodes, adopting a "one-master, multi-sided" technology architecture, and began trial operation in May this year, with a total of more than 3 million blocks in 6 months. It is reported that the platform can basically meet the government's security and efficiency requirements for the system, and actually supports trusted application scenarios.

Coordinating decentralized blockchain projects to operate on an underlying platform is considered a more powerful management approach.

"With the increasing number of blockchain application landing projects, an ecology was finally formed on the integration of a platform." Su Di, vice chairman of the Loudi CPPCC, said in an interview with Interchain Pulse that Loudi City develops the blockchain industry and the government Provide scenes, data, and platforms for project landing, attract project landing, and then integrate, "then the entire Loudi has become a digital city based on blockchain.

At present, Loudi City's unified urban-level blockchain basic platform is provided with technical support from FunChain Technology. Loudi City Government can open it to other enterprises to build a blockchain industry ecology.

"Bing is divided into three paths", three modes of the blockchain city race have been run

When the blockchain project is actually implemented, technology is only one part of it, and the openness of data and scenarios is also an important factor. This is an important strategy for Loudi to break through, and it is also a rule to distinguish the current government affairs construction of blockchain projects.

According to the government's participation and openness in blockchain city governance, development can be roughly divided into three paths. First, in the foregoing, the government can build the underlying platform or own the intellectual property rights of the project, and the government can lead the open data. The second is to "outsource" the project to the technology company for construction management, but the use and opening of the data may face more serious problems. Test; Third, join some existing inter-city blockchain alliances, such as the BSN network, and the data will be more open.

The government built its own low-level platform. First of all, the various types of data accumulated by the government for many years have less resistance to the on-chain, and the project landed more quickly. The government has the leading power, and to a certain extent, it can better coordinate and coordinate the use of resources. For example, Loudi is a government-led open resource that can attract more projects to land. But this model also requires the government to form a corresponding technical operation and maintenance team, which is essentially the responsibility of a social enterprise.

In fact, social enterprises play an important role in projects under the governance of blockchain cities. At present, blockchain projects related to urban construction and governance are basically social enterprises providing technical support, and some local governments have given more construction and leadership to enterprises. Under this model, for the government, technology construction work can be shared more with enterprises. However, how to open and share government affairs data requires more detailed and rigorous solutions from local governments.

Beijing launched a big data action plan in 2018 and cooperated with Huawei. The blockchain catalog was officially launched in October this year.

On November 9, Zhang Xiaojun, the person in charge of Huawei's blockchain, said that the directory chain was launched for a week, and more than 44,000 data were uploaded to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Public Security (Bureau of Public Security, Municipal Taxation Bureau, Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau, etc.). Data items, more than 8,000 responsibility directories, more than 1,900 information systems, and 2.7T data. In the future, information on 16 districts and counties will be accessed (3 companies have been connected), and inter-government data sharing authority management will be opened to resolve incomplete directories. Directory data two skins, and the problem that the directory is randomly changed.

Behind the massive on-chain data is a year of hard work by the Beijing government department.

Since 2018, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economics and Information Technology, the Municipal Committee of the CPC Committee and the Municipal Finance Bureau have led various government departments to sort out and set up a “Responsibility Catalog” one by one, corresponding to the formation of a large “data catalog” of the city. Over a year, the Beijing Blockchain Directory linked the responsibilities, directories and receipts of all 53 departments to build new data sharing rules.

The operation effect of Beijing's directory chain points the way for the construction of a blockchain city. But not all local governments now have the resources, technologies, and capabilities to reintegrate the city's data, and can restructure data sharing rules. At the moment, only Beijing can do this.

When local governments try to build a unified underlying platform, there are also national departments and enterprises targeting the construction of underlying platforms between cities.

On October 15, the National Information Center, China Mobile Communications Corporation, China UnionPay, and others jointly announced in Beijing that the Blockchain Service Network (BSN), which was jointly designed and constructed by six specific units, was officially released for beta. BSN is planned by the National Information Center. China UnionPay and China Mobile use relevant blockchain technology and existing network resources and data centers for independent research and development and deployment. It is a national blockchain that spans public networks, regions, and institutions. Service infrastructure platform.

The design vision of BSN is ambitious, and the specific implementation effect cannot be judged at present. However, before BSN, there were governments and companies that started from a single perspective to build a cross-city basic platform.

On October 12, Chen Chun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, stated in a public speech that the application cases of the National Provident Fund Center have achieved remarkable results. The Provident Fund Data Sharing Platform of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has connected with the Provident Fund Centers in 491 cities across the country, with more than 50 million pieces of data on the chain.

The success of the provident fund data sharing platform also shows that there is a possibility of on-chain data sharing and collaboration between cities and business connections, and there are also a wide range of application scenarios.

It is conceivable that with the expansion of the possibility of blockchain application and the demand for new technologies in the construction of smart cities, the underlying blockchain platform that cities will build in the future will coordinate related blockchain projects and may form cities and cities. The underlying platform shared between. But how to build this platform, is it built by local governments, or is led by social enterprises, or even directly established inter-city alliances, spread from face to point? It is still unknown, and the three modes have their own advantages and disadvantages. It is difficult to tell who can go further.

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