Required Reading In China: The Big Book Of Blockchain?
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Required Reading In China: The Big Book Of Blockchain?

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China’s leaders are abrasion up on blockchain technology. The People’s Daily Publishing House, which produces primers and educational abstracts on Marxism-Leninism and accompanying political subjects, has afresh appear a arbiter “…to advice cadres at all levels accept the blockchain.”

Titled “Blockchain—Leading Cadre’s Reader”, the textbook is a accumulation of accessories and essays by banking and abstruse specialists, according to an addition in the People’s Daily. 

Contributors to the new aggregate accommodate abstracts from clandestine companies, government bodies and basic funds. Ye Zhenzhen, admiral of People’s Daily Online, contributed an commodity to the new aggregate beneath the appellation “From Internet Thinking to Blockchain Thinking.”

An excerpt, reprinted in the Daily’s introduction, reads:

The better acceptation of blockchain technology at present is its operating mechanism. Through the able aggregate of technologies, it can accomplish the fair administration of resources, appropriately ensuring that the association has constant goals, and associates accept behavioral norms. This provides us a new access to appraise problems, and appear up with solutions.

The Reader will be the additional of a three-part series, forth with “Artificial Intelligence–Leading Cadre Reader” and “Big Data–Leading Cadre Reader.”

This is accidentally favorable language, advancing from a arch ambassador of one of the reddest state-owned media groups. China’s cardinal affair and government accept captivated crypto exchanges and ICOs at arms’ length, but they accept aboveboard accepted blockchain technology. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has adjourned a key class for blockchain research, and Crypto Briefing has ahead reported on inter-Ministry accord to authorize “national standards” for the blockchain by 2019. 

In the clandestine sector, China’s three arch tech giants accept anniversary launched beginning blockchain projects, as able-bodied as bounded government bodies. There were 456 blockchain-based companies in China as of the end of March, according to the MIIT. 

Tax authorities in Shenzhen afresh issued the aboriginal “blockchain-based invoice” on the Tencent blockchain, China Daily reports. According to China Daily “companies can abide applications for invoices and acknowledge tax on the blockchain platform… which will automatically accomplish invoices afterwards affairs are completed.”

And, while authorities accept kept the country out of the cryptocurrency game, that hasn’t chock-full them from watching on the sidelines. The government has issued monthly blockchain evaluations, baronial accessible chains on belief like innovation, applications and speed. 

Although there’s no assurance that that the People’s government is planning to abate its position on cryptocurrencies, the abysmal absorption with which Beijing is analytical blockchain tech may be a assurance of high-level interest.

In this sense, it’s hardly hasty that the government would absolute blockchain development to trusted companies instead of accumulation crowdsales. President Xi has again articular Blockchain as a arch innovation, and the technology is additionally addressed in the accepted Five-Year Plan. 

The columnist is invested in several cryptocurrencies.