On September 6, the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission and the Yangpu District People's Government announced for the first time on the "2018 China (Shanghai) Blockchain Technology Innovation Summit and 2018 China (Shanghai) Big Data Industry Innovation Summit". The five-in-one strategy in the blockchain field, as well as related plans to establish the Shanghai Blockchain Technology Association, the Shanghai Blockchain Technology Innovation and Industrialization Base, and the Blockchain Industry Guidance Fund.
Among them, the goal of the Shanghai Blockchain Technology Innovation and Industrialization Base is to build Yangpu into the most representative Shanghai Blockchain Innovation Base within 5 years, cultivate 1,000 blockchain professional and technical talents, and introduce 100 districts. Blockchain start-ups, incubating 10 quasi-unicorn blockchain companies, and cultivating 1 blockchain unicorn company.
After more than two months, on November 23, under the guidance of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, Shanghai Science and Technology Association, Shanghai Yangpu District People's Government, Shanghai Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Center, Shanghai Yangpu District Science and Technology Commission, and the National At the "Shanghai Blockchain Technology Association Launching Ceremony and the First Yangtze River Delta Blockchain Technology Application Forum" sponsored by the East Technology Transfer Center, Wang Yi, head of the Shanghai Blockchain Technology Innovation and Industrialization Base, introduced the progress of the base Condition.
expressexpress, The blockchain base attracts blockchain companies and talents, but the convergence at the physical space level is not the focus of the base operation. The focus of the base operation is incubation, which is the part of the base operation that shines.
Odaily’s advice to entrepreneurs regarding the current chaos in the blockchain industry, the implementation scenarios of blockchain, what services Shanghai Blockchain Technology Innovation and Industrialization Base will provide to enterprises, and how to view the future development of blockchain Wait, an exclusive interview with Wang Yi. On the whole, Wang Yi mainly gave the following views:
The reason for the chaos in the blockchain industry is that many people are just chasing hot spots and do not really understand the blockchain.
Scenarios such as cultural creation, financial leasing, and ports can realize blockchain technology to empower the real economy to a certain extent.
In high-value-added business scenarios, the industrial chain is short, and many links in the closed loop can be connected. In this bottom-up scenario, the blockchain is relatively easy to get through.
The Internet of Things is like a sports car, but without blockchain technology, it is like driving in a quagmire, unable to play the performance of the sports car itself, and the blockchain is like a highway, which helps to promote the development of the Internet of Things .
Whether entrepreneurs have entrepreneurial genes is very important, not everyone is suitable for entrepreneurship. The selection of the team is very important, which will affect the entrepreneurial genes of the entire base.
The difficulty of implementing the blockchain is largely due to the fact that many organizations are unwilling to disclose data due to reasons such as security and privacy protection.
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The following is Odaily's exclusive interview with Wang Yi, the content has been abridged:
Odaily: At present, the blockchain industry is in the early stage of development, and the whole industry is still relatively chaotic. How do you think the market can be regulated?
Wang Yi: There is chaos in this industry because many people are just chasing hot spots and do not really understand the blockchain, and have not studied the blockchain seriously. This is what our base has been doing all the time, that is, preaching, so that people in traditional industries, IT industries, and the government know what blockchain is, how industries and technologies are empowered, and how they are superimposed, instead of talking about it in general Bitcoin is a digital currency, and the future is to issue coins to be the blockchain. Bitcoin is a successful case of blockchain technology, but it does not mean that the blockchain will continue to issue coins in the future. The technology must serve our application scenarios.
Many people use the concept of blockchain to tell stories and issue coins, but this kind of thing comes and goes quickly. This is not called entrepreneurship, it is called speculation. Through the sharp drop in the currency market in the past six months, everyone must have seen it clearly. However, in this era, it is spring for empowering real technology and empowering ecology. This has brought huge opportunities for many people who are from majors and are working at the bottom of technology, IT, big data, etc.
Odaily: You have a lot of experience in incubating start-ups in the blockchain field. Can you talk about how the blockchain can be combined with the real economy based on specific cases or cases you have incubated? which scenes areReally use blockchain technology to solve the pain points of traditional industries, not just simple XX industry + blockchain?
Wang Yi: One is the cultural and creative side. I have contacted companies that do copyright verification. The phenomenon of copyright infringement in the domestic cultural and creative industry is relatively serious, and the blockchain can solve the problem of copyright ownership to a certain extent by uploading data to the chain.
The other is a very vertical scenario on the financial side, which is financial leasing. For example, a private entrepreneur who has worked in the automobile industry for seven or eight years found that cars were often stolen. So he wanted to use blockchain technology to upload information such as car travel records to the chain, so as to facilitate the traceability of information, reduce losses, and at the same time bring profit points to his business.
Another is the port industry. Blockchain technology can promote its digitization, information sharing, and greatly improve efficiency. At present, Ningbo Port and Nantong Port are both under start-up. This is a national emerging strategy, and technology empowers real industries and national industries. It has certain prospects.
Odaily: What do you think are the scenarios where the blockchain is not easy to implement? you compareWhat are the promising landing scenarios?
Wang Yi: For things that are too heavy, such as vaccines and other medical aspects, although they are very good in theory, they are too heavy to trace their origins. Just like the previous Internet of Things, the Internet of Things itself is not complicated. It is just a network, a card, and a cloud. When it is connected, it is the era of everything connected. This is easy to say, but how to do it in practice? There are still many departments between the government and the government that have not been connected, and there is no way to connect the upper and lower levels. Therefore, many companies engaged in the Internet of Things are either dead, transforming, or still struggling.
At this time, the blockchain technology came, blockchain + IoT, can help the IoT survive. The Internet of Things is like a sports car, but without blockchain technology, it is like driving in a pile of mud, and cannot perform the performance of the sports car itself, and the blockchain is like a highway, which helps to promote the Internet of Things development of.
The Internet of Things, blockchain and high value-added products (such as diamonds) will be more promising. The other one is cross-border parcels, putting commodity information on the chain, and the financial leasing scenario just mentioned.
Generally speaking, in terms of high value-added business scenarios, the industrial chain is short, and many links in the closed loop can be opened up. This kind of scenario from the bottom to the top is easier to get through.
Odaily: What do you think are the difficulties in implementing the blockchain?
Wang Yi: The difficulty in implementing the blockchain lies largely in the fact that many organizations are unwilling to disclose data due to reasons such as security and privacy protection. Shanghai is setting up pilot projects in this regard, and we are connecting with courts, hospitals, etc. As long as they are willing to give us these scene data, it will be easy to get through the above, otherwise it will be difficult to go up.
Generally speaking, the application scenarios of blockchain are advancing, but not so fast, but there are still many opportunities worth trying in this industry.
Odaily: What services will the Shanghai Blockchain Technology Innovation and Industrialization Base mainly provide for enterprises?
Wang Yi: Our base will provide industry funds, mentor groups, and service agencies such as securities companies to support enterprises. For example, a company currently settled in our base, whose CEO studied big data and AR majors at Stanford University, worked in Google for three years after graduating from a master's degree, and later built a team in Silicon Valley to start a business, and now returned to China to start a business and settled in our base. This team has excellent technology, but they don't have a special understanding of the domestic business environment. Then, on the market side, we will have dedicated personnel to provide support and have the guidance of our mentor group. The members of the mentor group are mainly private entrepreneurs who have been listed in China. They are more down-to-earth and have a better understanding of the domestic business environment. At the same time, the base will also provide financing services for blockchain start-ups.
When the enterprise develops to a certain level, there will be a shortage of talents. The base is backed by Yangpu. At present, the base has reached an in-depth cooperation with Fudan to transfer talents to the base. However, enterprises that send academic talents directly to the base are sometimes not down-to-earth. Our base will do a good job in the last mile of training.
Training is difficult, but if it is done well, it will greatly reduce the current chaos in the blockchain, which is a positive cycle for the industry.
Odaily: How does the base do in terms of training?
Wang Yi: Our training has two ends, one end is the training of entrepreneurs, and the other end is the training of technical talents. The training content involves the basic knowledge of blockchain. Members of the mentor group share their own practice in blockchain, and students share with each other how to apply blockchain technology to their own enterprises and government work. Recently, some leaders from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai will also come to our base to study.
Odaily: The base currently has 50 settled companies. What aspects did the base use to screen the settled companies?
Wang Yi: In this regard, we have a two-way choice. Our base has a committee of 6-7 people to decide whether to approve the entry of a company. If there are 3-4 votes against, the company will be eliminated.
In terms of selection criteria, we will look at the underlying technical structure of the company and its start-up team. This is very important for the team, which will affect the entrepreneurial genes of the entire base. To be an enterprise, you must have the spirit of a wolf and the ability to run forward. The base is only to help the enterprise build a high-speed runway.
I have always believed that the spirit of the blockchain is open and open source, and everyone is willing to share it. The right candidate, the right genes. If the overall entrepreneurial gene of the base is not good, it will be difficult to have further development. Simple things are easier to do and more efficient.
Odaily: In the future, will the Science and Technology Innovation Board provide support or policy support for blockchain companies?
Wang Yi: Enterprises that can be listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board need to meet certain conditions, which is the basis. Then our base will gather good brokerages and other service organizations to provide support for enterprises.
Odaily: Yangpu has moved quickly in blockchain. Will the case of the base be copied to other parts of the country in the future?
Wang Yi: The reason why Yangpu is moving fast in blockchain is that our leadership team is younger and accepts new things faster. In fact, doing this is quite a challenge. For many organizations, they are afraid to do it. They are worried that they will make more mistakes, and what to do if they take the wrong route. In this regard, our leadership is still very courageous, and of course our previous accumulation is also very important.
At present, many governments from other places have come to visit and study with us, and we will share our specific practices, progress and future plans without reservation. But at the moment we plan to brand this base first and then consider it further.
Odaily: The blockchain is still in its early stages. What advice do you have for entrepreneurs in the blockchain industry?
Wang Yi: Entrepreneurs should not forget about commercial operations while focusing on technology. Similarly, if the technical level is not good enough, then if it is our mentor group, it will help the company sort out from the strategic level.
Whether entrepreneurs have entrepreneurial genes is very important, not everyone is suitable for entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs need to have dreams, dare to endure hardships, be open-minded, optimistic, and dare to accept challenges. Entrepreneurs must also have the ability to lead the team forward, rather than having personal heroism. Many companies fail, partly because some rules are not set up among several partners. Entrepreneurs must also have a structure and be willing to share the cake with the team. Entrepreneurship now is not about being the boss alone. Entrepreneurs must dare to take responsibility and be responsible.
If entrepreneurs have these characteristics and their overall entrepreneurial direction is correct, then our base will provide support for the shortcomings of their enterprises and connect them with resources. But if the people are wrong, everything is wrong.
Odaily: How do you see the development of the blockchain industry in the next year or two?
Wang Yi: The blockchain definitely needs time to settle. Time is the best catalyst, and some things cannot be rushed. We have set a five-year plan. After all, it will take two years for companies to enter the Science and Technology Innovation Board.
Our base is currently doing its best to retain talents and cultivate seeds patiently to make the soil of the base more fertile. For our base, the most important thing is to make the blockchain industry standard well and promote the healthy development of the industry.
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