Domineering, pragmatic, I don't believe in evil, I want to die and become a god without dying.
In the past, the impressions of Hunan tended to stay in Juzizhoutou during the Mao Zedong era, the stinky tofu on the roadside in Changsha, and Hunan Satellite TV on the screen day after day.
In the past ten years, we call it the decade of the Internet and the mobile Internet. Hunan has cultivated 1/3 of the talents of the Internet. Zhang Xiaolong, the father of WeChat, Yao Jinbo, the founder of 58.com, Tang Yan, the founder of Momo, and Xiong Xiaoge, a partner of IDG, can be regarded as a large number of talents.
But when you talk about the Internet, where do you think of?
In addition to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, there is no need to say more about Hangzhou. Nanjing owns Suning and Tuniu, Wuhan owns Douyu and Shishidocument, Suzhou owns Tongcheng-Elong and Qichacha, and Chengdu owns Gudong. Internet corner overtaking", and finally become the big data center of Guiyang...
But there is no Changsha.
This place that has cultivated a large number of Internet talents in China, in the Internet age, still relies on Sany Heavy Industry, Zoomlion, and of course, Hunan Satellite TV.
The decade of the Internet is the decade lost by Hunan.
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"It's tough, it's patient, it's tyrannical, it's not afraid of death."
A favorite slang phrase spoken by Hunan people is a good illustration of the aggressiveness and tenacity of this place. Just like in the Internet era, in the blockchain, there are many well-known people in the circle in Hunan.
For example, Yi Lihua, a young man who came out of the village of Loudi, Hunan.
Before 2015, Yi Lihua was always in a state of poverty. One year he went to an event and told others about his poverty, saying that he spent 9 months in Shanghai alone with 1,800 yuan.
Someone introduced a girlfriend to Yi Lihua, but he didn’t even have money for a meal. In order to live in Shanghai, Yi Lihua rented a two-bedroom house and rented out both bedrooms, and slept in the living room by himself. on the sofa.
In 2015, Yi Lihua started to lay out the blockchain and made his first pot of gold.
In 2016, the founder of Quantum Chain called Yi Lihua, "Brother, you made a loss on investing in Quantum, and I will back it up. If you lose money, I will return it to you." At that time, the price of Quantum Chain was 0.5 yuan, and by the beginning of 2017 , Quantum Chain opened, and the price reached 60 yuan.
At the end of 2017, Yi Lihua and Lou Jiyue, the goddess of the currency circle, tied the knot. The wedding room was chosen in Shanghai Xintiandi, a place where every inch of land is expensive. His meal money.
Unlike Yi Lihua's rocket-like rise, Li Lin's success is "traceable" in the eyes of many people. At first, he was recognized as a genius.
In 2000, Li Lin was admitted to Tongji University with a high score of 640; in 2005, Li Lin was admitted to Tsinghua University as a graduate student. After staying in Tsinghua University for two years, Li Lin graduated ahead of schedule and joined Oracle Corporation. Later, Li Lin started a business with his friends. "A small profit.
In 2013, Garage Coffee in Haidian, Beijing has become a holy place for the Internet.
Batch after batch of entrepreneurs and investors come in and out here.
Here, Li Lin started his third venture, Huobi.com. On September 1, 2013, Huobi.com was officially launched. As soon as it was launched, Li Lin announced that "Huobi.com will permanently waive the handling fee", and was instantly pushed to the forefront of the industry.
In November 2013, Huobi.com received a joint investment from Zhen Fund and angel investor Dai Zhikang; on February 25, 2014, Huobi.com’s single-day transaction volume reached 1 billion RMB, creating the highest record of the global Bitcoin trading platform at that time ; On April 4, 2014, Huobi.com received tens of millions of dollars in Series A investment from Sequoia Capital, a top Wall Street venture capital institution.
In just one year, Li Lin rose to fame. In 2019, Huobi went public through a backdoor, and Li Lin was once worth as much as 7.5 billion.
There are many people from Hunan in blockchain, Dundee, Panzi, Cheng Ye, Li Jianwu, Lao Mai, O’Galin, Yang Xiaohua, Guo Zhilong, Wang Xiaoye, Cheng Guihua, Li Gangqiang, Dai Yue, Hu Shi, Deng Legeng, Zhang Xiang, Liu Wei, Zhang Lie, Tang Xiaobo, Song Lin, Wang Gang...
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"This time, the Hunan Army has a backstage"
Simply talking about entrepreneurs does not prove anything. The talents of Hunan people have been highlighted countless times in the past century.
But in the blockchain wave, the Hunan government is at the forefront, and the Hunan Army has a backing.
To be precise, in fact, Hunan’s blockchain support policy is not too early, and the initial strength is not too great.
my country's first wave of blockchain support policies occurred at the end of 2017.
In September 2017, Hangzhou issued the "Policy Opinions on Building the Xixi Valley Blockchain Industrial Park". Also in September, Shenzhen City encouraged financial innovation. excellent project". In December 2017, the Huangpu District of Guangzhou issued "10 Block Chains", adding 200 million yuan of financial investment to the blockchain every year for subsidies and technical rewards for blockchain companies.
This can be regarded as the earliest batch of blockchain policies, and Hunan will not begin to put blockchain on the agenda until the middle of 2018.
Changsha’s first blockchain support policy appeared in June 2018. The only document issued by the Management Committee of the Economic and Technological Development Zone, the support is not strong, only 2 million yuan in enterprise support funds.
It should be said that by the middle of 2018, Hunan is still lagging behind Shandong, Fujian, Sichuan, Anhui and many other places in terms of blockchain policies, let alone competing with first-tier cities.
Such as Changsha.
In the middle of 2018, Lianta Think Tank made a blockchain diagnosis for Changsha, and believed that Changsha was obviously lagging behind in the blockchain. "There are very few parks, funds, organizations, and patents related to the blockchain. And the disclosed information is vague”, “Changsha’s blockchain development lags far behind its economic performance”.
The turning point came in the second half of 2018.
A group of blockchain people in Hunan met at a conference and shouted the same slogan, called to use blockchain to develop Hunan. Later, in several interviews, this group of people was called the "stealing fire" of Hunan blockchain. ", but they prefer to use their own title - Hunan Blockchain Alliance.
At first, these were just a few folk blockchain technologists, even coin speculators. As the alliance held several blockchain conferences in Changsha and Loudi, more and more reporters, businessmen, and officials participated. The blockchain alliance is beginning to have its own voice.
"Don't talk about going north to Shenzhen and Hangzhou. Compared with Chengdu, Chongqing, and Guiyang, Hunan has fallen behind."
This sentence was repeatedly mentioned at the Hunan people's blockchain conference. It seems that every "fire thief" is full of confidence in using the blockchain to revive Hunan.
No one knows how much the Hunan Blockchain Alliance has done in the meantime, but Hunan's blockchain has ushered in a turning point——
In August 2018, Xingsha Blockchain Industrial Park was officially established
At the end of 2018, the General Office of the Changsha Municipal Government officially released the "Opinions on Accelerating the Development of the Blockchain Industry", and the first batch of 10 blockchain companies moved into the Xingsha Blockchain Industrial Park.
On the afternoon of October 21, 2018, the Changsha Blockchain Technology Industry Alliance was established.
On November 23, 2018, Changsha Blockchain Industrial Park was established.
In January 2019, Changsha piloted the "blockchain + garbage classification" model
In 2019, the Xingsha Blockchain Industrial Park first proposed a "100 billion-level" blockchain industrial park plan.
On January 18, 2020, the Hunan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Hunan Provincial Digital Economy Development Plan (2020-2025)", and the blockchain integrated application project became a key project.
On March 27, the Department of Industry and Information Technology of Hunan Province issued a notice on "Key Projects for the Development of Big Data and Blockchain Industry in Hunan Province in 2020", listing 16 blockchain projects as key projects for industrial development.
On April 8, 2020, Changsha Economic and Technological Development Zone signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with Sany Automobile Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and Shugen Internet Technology Co., Ltd., with a total investment of 18 billion yuan, and a 100 billion-level digital economy industry will be formed within 5 years.
This province, which was once considered to be "barely able to rank among the second-tier blockchain regions by virtue of private power", turned around and became a blockchain center in central China.
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"Counterattack in fourth-tier cities"
I know that Loudi originated from Pharaoh.
Lao Wang turned out to be the person in charge of Jingu Chain, which is a well-known blockchain application company in Beijing. I met Lao Wang at a blockchain conference. Another celebrity in the blockchain industry, Blockchain Xu Chaoyi, the boss of Hashi Technology, a blockchain technology company, was the host, and we chatted all night about blockchain applications.
At the end of 2017, Lao Wang suddenly told me that he returned to his hometown of Loudi, Hunan from Beijing, and he still worked on blockchain and cooperated with the government. Observers didn't take it seriously at first. The blockchain in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen has not been developed, let alone a small city in the central part.
However, just a week later, I saw the news: Beijing Jingulian Technology Co., Ltd., Loudi State Investment and Wanbao New District jointly established Hunan Smart Government Blockchain Company.
Since then, I began to observe Loudi.
Compared with Changsha, Loudi's blockchain story is more legendary.
Different from Changsha’s approach of gradually promoting the blockchain from the private sector to the government, and then a series of support measures from the Hunan government to revitalize the blockchain, the Loudi government has been at the forefront from the very beginning.
In 2014, dozens of enterprises in Loudi City successively stopped paying their principal and interest, which led to the "crash" of the private lending market. On the eve of the Spring Festival that year, in this prefecture-level city in central Hunan, it was reported every day that borrowers jumped off buildings, took medicine, etc. Extreme debt collection.
At that time, the scale of private lending funds in the whole city of Loudi was about 40 billion, of which about 11.8 billion funds had problems, involving 73 enterprises. The credit system of the entire city of Loudi was damaged, and some residents of Loudi even saved their savings in Changsha to avoid risks.
It was at this time that the principle of blockchain aroused the strong interest of the Loudi Municipal Government. As a cutting-edge technology, the blockchain is naturally easy to gain people's trust due to its traceability, decentralization, and immutable characteristics, and can quickly help Loudi rebuild the city's credit.
The promotion of the Loudi government has greatly contributed to the development of blockchain in this city, so we can see that in the overwhelming blockchain news, the protagonists, in addition to Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and a majority of Chinese Loudi City, which no one knows yet.
At the beginning of 2018, I saw a piece of news in Lao Wang’s circle of friends that the secretary of the Loudi Municipal Party Committee instructed to seize the high ground of blockchain technology application.
Don’t make a fuss about it. At that time, this news was reprinted by many blockchain media. There were not many applause in the circle of friends, but more mocking voices, “What is the highland of blockchain technology application” and “The ignorant are fearless” .
After all, there is no large-scale application of blockchain in Beijing and Shanghai. What's more, in Loudi, in the eyes of most people, this is just a slogan-style news, which will be submerged in just a few days, and then will not be submerged again. people mentioned.
However, the fact is that in just half a year, Loudi established the first blockchain industrial park in Hunan and the first blockchain fund management company in Hunan. It has successively introduced more than 10 blockchain enterprises such as Hunan Smart Government Affairs, Qulian Technology, and German Smart Chain.
I have a colleague Zoey, a blockchain test siege lion, who is from Loudi.
In the Spring Festival of 2020, Zoey returned to Hunan the day before the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia and the closure of Wuhan, and took a few photos of Loudi Blockchain Industrial Park for me.
The two buildings are next to each other. On the left is the blockchain industrial park in Loudi, and on the right is the Internet industrial park in Loudi.
Zoey told me that when most urbanites across the country still regard the blockchain as a gimmick and a scam, Loudi people already have a strong understanding and affection for the blockchain. In the past, Loudi people introduced themselves to the outside world by saying " Zeng Guofan's hometown", now, Loudi people prefer to call their hometown "Blockchain City".
At present, Loudi has taken the lead in developing a number of application platforms such as the basic network platform of the government blockchain, the information sharing platform of the real estate blockchain, the registration service platform of the industrial and commercial taxation blockchain, and the competitive storage platform of blockchain state-owned funds.
Loudi’s industrial and commercial taxation blockchain registration service platform has introduced a total of 175 Internet companies related to live broadcast and short video, and paid more than 25 million yuan in taxes in half a year. Loudi's real estate blockchain information sharing platform is the world's first benchmark project that truly applies blockchain technology to the field of government services.
The first domestic "blockchain + government affairs" landing platform also belongs to Loudi. It has been running stably for 15 months, with 4 nodes, generating more than 2.6 million blocks, and accumulatively processing more than 24 million transactions. The output capability of municipal government affairs system data sharing services has been exported to many other cities.
The reputation of the chain city Loudi is getting better and better, and the policy preference is also increasing. In February 2020, the "Hunan Provincial Blockchain Industrial Park" established in Loudi became the first blockchain industrial park approved by the government agency. , and became the first and only provincial industrial park in Hunan.
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"Hunan people have ambitions"
By 2025, establish 5 provincial-level blockchain industrial parks, expand a number of typical application scenarios, and form 10 leading blockchain enterprises with national influence.
This is Hunan's ambition in the blockchain era.
In addition to the "Chain Circle Hunan Army" of the Hunan Blockchain Alliance, more and more Hunan people have come out to do blockchain in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Changsha, and Loudi. I have a deep understanding of this point. Experience, the Observer team has more than 30 people, a quarter of which are from Hunan.
This year, Shandong, Chongqing, Hainan, and Shaanxi have all included accelerating the development of the local blockchain industry in their 2020 government work reports, but Hunan has already taken the lead and left them far behind.
As of October last year, as far as observers know, there are more than 800 blockchain companies in Hunan, with more than 100 patents. Many first-tier blockchain companies, including Qulian, have opened branches in Changsha and Loudi.
Drawing on the experience of the Internet era, excellent companies and front-line talents are limited. After the division of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the talent market is so large. Hunan eats meat, Hainan drinks soup, and Anhui and Shandong can only look at the leaves of vegetables. Just like Guiyang has become a big data center, it is no longer difficult to do big data in other cities, and so is the blockchain.
Hunan is already making soup, and more provinces and cities are still chopping firewood.
Hunan, which has lost the Internet for ten years, may, this time really grasp the blockchain for the next ten years.
In the future, observers judge that the blockchain competition will be imminent, and talent subsidy policies will be released one after another. This is a sunrise industry with an average annual salary of more than 300,000 yuan. It is not too late to join now.
