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The two sessions of 2020 closed today. Although "blockchain" was not included in this national government work report, during the two sessions, proposals, speeches, and opinions related to blockchain appeared frequently. According to incomplete statistics, relevant proposals, There are more than 50 speeches.

Among the 56 related proposals and speeches, 36 related to promoting the application of blockchain technology, accounting for 64%; 17 related to strengthening industry supervision and establishing industry standards, accounting for 31%. Although there are only 3 items related to digital currency, the proposals have also attracted much attention because they are related to the current central bank’s digital currency pilot implementation, issuance, and cross-border stable digital currency.

Figure 1: Distribution of the number of proposals related to the blockchain

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Source: Internet public information, 01 blockchain.

Industrial blockchain: applications in the medical field are frequently mentioned

Over the past ten years of development, blockchain technology has been relatively mature in the fields of government affairs and people's livelihood, supply chain finance, traceability and certificate storage. 2020 is also considered to be the year of large-scale implementation of blockchain technology. As the National Development and Reform Commission incorporates the blockchain into the "new infrastructure", blockchain technology has also become one of the important drivers of industrial innovation and development. Specifically, in terms of the combination of blockchain technology and real industries, the fields involved include medical care, e-commerce, public services, urban management, public welfare, etc.

Table 1: Information related to the application of blockchain

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Source of information: Public information collation, 01 blockchain.

It is worth noting that medical-related application suggestions appear frequently. Among the 29 related information of "blockchain + physical industry" in the above table, 7 are related to medical care, involving product traceability supervision, emergency supplies Reserve, prevention and control of infectious diseases, medical data system construction, Internet medical chronic disease services, etc.

For example, on April 13, 2018, Tencent officially released WeChat Smart Hospital 3.0. The new version of WeChat Smart Hospital incorporates all informed parties into the blockchain (building an alliance chain) to realize real-time on-chain supervision.

In September 2018, Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University joined hands with Ant Financial to launch the country's first blockchain electronic prescription. The blockchain technology is mainly used to ensure that the prescription is accurate, tamper-proof, and traceable, so as to solve the problems that patients with follow-up visits have. Problems such as prescriptions not following the doctor's advice and repeating medicines outside.

In addition, there are many proposals and speeches related to government affairs and people's livelihood, public governance, and community management, including information service management platforms for waste classification, smart communities, and community governance communities.

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Digital Currency: Proposal to launch cross-border digital stable currency in Hong Kong sparks heated discussions

There are 3 proposals related to the digital currency. Among them, Cui Yu, a deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of City Bank Clearing Services Co., Ltd., suggested that digital currencies should be tried first in the Yangtze River Delta region.

Shen Nanpeng, the global executive partner of Sequoia Capital, suggested in the "Proposal on the Development of Cross-border Digital Stable Coins in Hong Kong" to develop cross-border digital stable coins in Hong Kong. In the proposal, Shen Nanpeng believes that the development of cross-border digital stablecoins in Hong Kong is based on the construction of a digital technology-driven cross-border payment and settlement network between China, Japan and South Korea, and Hong Kong will be built into an international financial center in the digital economy era.

Relevant specific suggestions include: 1. Design the currency value according to the weight, and the regulatory sandbox will be used first in cross-border trade payments; 2. The government-supervised private office will promote the landing in Hong Kong, and the custody reserve will improve the security of e-wallets; 3. Explore the two places Research on cross-border supervision of digital stablecoins and DC/EP docking.

After the proposal came out, it caused heated discussions in the industry. On the one hand, its function setting for cross-border digital stable currency is similar to that of Libra, which has always attracted much attention. On the other hand, the proposal connects the application of cross-border digital stable currency and the central bank's digital currency, and proposes to "promote the cooperation between the mainland and Hong Kong to explore the research, testing and evaluation of the docking of digital stable currency and the central bank's digital currency, and promote the central bank's DC /EP is the first to realize cross-border applications in the Bay Area."

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Parallel supervision and regulation, increase investment to promote industry development

At least 17 related proposals or speeches were mentioned in terms of industry regulatory governance, establishment of industry norms, and increasing investment in industry development.

There are three main aspects related to blockchain supervision and governance: one is that blockchain technology and industry development itself requires a complete regulatory mechanism; ; The third is about preventing digital currency financial risks.

Zheng Jie, Director of China Mobile Group Corporation, Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman, and General Manager of Zhejiang Mobile, mentioned that it is necessary to "strengthen research on blockchain node tracking and visualization, chain governance and other regulatory technologies, and strengthen blockchain platform-level applications." To improve the compliance and standardization of blockchain technology and applications.”