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In 2018, the first officially licensed blockchain industry pilot zone in China was established in Hainan Ecological Software.
Over the past year or so, Hainan has attracted more than 70 blockchain companies to register and settle down, including Auke Group, Huobi Group, Baidu Blockchain Lab, 360 Blockchain and Xunlei Blockchain.
Why do blockchain companies get together to Hainan?
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The regulation is becoming stricter, and the formalization of regulation is the way out for domestic blockchain companies
On October 25, the 18th collective study of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee emphasized that the blockchain should be used as an important breakthrough for independent innovation of core technologies, clarify the main direction of attack, increase investment, focus on overcoming a number of key core technologies, and accelerate the promotion of Blockchain technology and industrial innovation development. Immediately afterwards, the "People's Daily" published an article pointing out that blockchain innovation does not mean hyping digital currencies, and the use of blockchains to hype air coins should be prevented.
What followed was a comprehensive investigation and crackdown on illegal companies across the country, and exchanges and project parties across the country were cleaned up and inspected. Shenzhen, Beijing, and Shanghai, including the central bank, have officially launched a stormy siege against virtual currencies.
On November 6, the Hong Kong Securities Regulatory Commission announced that if any trading platform or person in Hong Kong sells virtual asset futures contracts or provides trading services for virtual asset futures contracts without a license or approval, it may violate the "Securities and Futures Regulations. The Securities Regulatory Commission will not grant licenses or approvals for operating virtual currency transactions, that is, setting up a virtual exchange in Hong Kong to provide virtual currency trading services will be subject to criminal sanctions once convicted.
On the afternoon of November 22, the Shanghai headquarters of the central bank announced that it would carry out special rectification on virtual currency-related activities in Shanghai, and then officially issued an announcement to the whole country.
On the evening of November 22, the Beijing regulatory authorities announced that they would adhere to the principle of “strike as soon as they appear” for illegal financial activities such as virtual currency, and continue to maintain a high-pressure supervision situation. Once discovered, they will be severely dealt with.
On November 26, Dragon TV reported that Shanghai Mopai rectified the virtual currency business, and the "Binance" Shanghai office was closed. It confirmed "The Block"'s previous report on Binance's Shanghai office.
It is also reported that all companies in the Hangzhou area with the word blockchain in their names must be filed.
It can be seen that formalization will be the way out for domestic blockchain companies, and it may be the only way out.
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Giants enter the game, government subsidies
Nowadays, giants such as BATJ Huawei are laying out the blockchain. The number of Alibaba blockchain patent applications has reached 1,005, ranking first in the global blockchain patent rankings for three consecutive years.
It is worth mentioning that during this year's Double 11, several e-commerce platforms have introduced blockchain technology. According to statistics, this year, 150 million Tmall products protected by the ant blockchain have reached 150 million, covering 14,500 international brands. JD.com used the "blockchain anti-counterfeiting traceability platform" to trace more than 1 billion commodities. At the same time, Suning also said at the double 11 conference that more than 50% of the products traced using blockchain technology have exceeded 50%.
In the past year, many local governments across the country have issued detailed regulations on blockchain policies, implementing subsidies for various items ranging from 100,000 yuan to 6 million yuan. Subsidies include blockchain enterprise entry subsidies, operating incentives, Talent support, platform support, research institution support, financing loan subsidies, listing incentives, etc., are numerous.
When it comes to government support for blockchain, Hainan is the most obvious and most popular among blockchain companies. Of course, Hainan has always been at the forefront of the country in terms of blockchain, and wants to use blockchain technology to realize the province's take-off.
In 2018, the first officially licensed blockchain industry pilot zone in China was established in Hainan Ecological Software.
In April 2019, Hainan launched the country's first blockchain electronic deposit certificate platform. In August, the Hainan Provincial Blockchain Technology Engineering Research Center was officially approved by the Hainan Development and Reform Commission. One of the engineering research centers. In September, the Haikou Blockchain Association was formally established.
At present, blockchain companies such as Ouco Group, Huobi, and bibox, as well as Baidu Blockchain Lab and 360 Blockchain have all settled in Hainan. According to data from Enterprise Check, there are 984 companies in Hainan that include “blockchain” in their business scope.
On December 1, 2019, the "Hainan International Offshore Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Sanya) Pilot Zone" was officially unveiled, and Aoke Group, Tianya Community, and Deding Innovation became the first batch of companies to settle in.
Yesterday evening, a set of CCTV Evening News also reported that Aoke Group, as the first batch of enterprises to settle in the Hainan International Offshore Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Sanya) Pilot Zone, established its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Sanya.
Among them, Xu Mingxing, the founder of Auco Group, also said that we believe that the Hainan Offshore Innovation and Entrepreneurship Demonstration Zone has a broad space to help Hainan truly enter the international market.
According to Wang Lu, the vice governor of the Hainan Provincial People's Government, Hainan currently has two research areas in the blockchain, one is ecology, which strengthens research in the basic aspects; .
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Hainan has already "chained" on the blockchain
In fact, Hainan has long been "chained" to the blockchain and has formed an indissoluble bond with it.
The earliest available records on the Hainan blockchain date back to 2017.
On January 17, 2017, the "globalization plan" was proposed at the Davos Forum. Four days later, China's first village-level global business blockchain (GBBC, or global business blockchain) innovation alliance was established in Longlou Town, Wenchang City. Holy Village was established.
Wang Xiaoqiao, Mayor of Wenchang Municipal People's Government, said at the second meeting of the 15th People's Congress of Wenchang City that he should give full play to the role of China's first village-level blockchain innovation alliance, gather talents and resources in the blockchain field, and actively cultivate And the introduction of blockchain industries such as aerospace technology engineering and green financial innovation.
Later, on April 13, 2018, the Party Central Committee decided to support the construction of a free trade pilot zone on the whole island of Hainan, support Hainan to gradually explore and steadily promote the construction of a free trade port with Chinese characteristics, and establish a free trade port policy and institutional system step by step and in stages.
On the first day after the end of the National Day holiday in 2018, the boots officially landed, and the Hainan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology officially awarded the Hainan Ecological Software Park and established the Hainan Free Trade Zone (Port) Blockchain Pilot Zone. This marks that Hainan's industrial development has entered a new stage of development, and the development of digital economy industries such as blockchain in Hainan has officially kicked off.
