On March 4, the Standing Committee meeting proposed to "accelerate the construction of major projects and infrastructure that have been clearly defined in the national plan, and accelerate the construction of new infrastructure such as 5G networks and data centers. In the context of the global economy being affected by the epidemic, the "new infrastructure" has been given the important task of stimulating China's economic growth, and it has become a hot word and has received widespread social attention.
What is "new infrastructure"
The emergence of the concept of "new infrastructure" did not start this year. As early as the Central Economic Work Conference held at the end of December 2018, it was clearly pointed out that "new infrastructure construction is a key task for 2019", and the "new foundation" was clearly defined for the first time. The concept of "facility construction". "New infrastructure" refers to the infrastructure construction focused on the technology side, including seven major areas: 5G infrastructure, UHV, intercity high-speed railway and intercity rail transit, new energy vehicle charging piles, big data centers, artificial intelligence and Industrial Internet.
Compared with traditional infrastructure facilities such as railways, highways, airports, and bridges, the new infrastructure is a digital economic infrastructure that uses data as production materials and focuses on information digital infrastructure. It includes digital, intelligent, unmanned, and automated types. At the same time as the high-tech industry, it also includes some areas such as rail transit. These areas are important supports for future economic development, and there is huge room for development in China and the world.
BSN is a new global infrastructure led by China
The implementation of the "new infrastructure" requires a new trust mechanism as a link. The core concept of the blockchain is the value transfer and credit mechanism, which can establish reliable trust between peers in the network, so that the value transfer process can remove intermediary interference, both open information and protect privacy, both make decisions and protect individual rights and improve It improves the efficiency of value interaction and reduces costs. Therefore, the blockchain will play an indispensable and important role in the development of "new infrastructure" and become "infrastructure" in "new infrastructure" and "basic technology" in infrastructure. With the technological evolution and industrial development, the blockchain is bound to continue to integrate with other information technologies and promote each other to further empower the new infrastructure.
On the other hand, the blockchain provides a new data organization and application paradigm, which can solve the problem of information asymmetry, achieve collaborative trust and consistent action among multiple subjects, promote data sharing, optimize business processes, and reduce operations Cost, enhance synergy efficiency, build a credible system and other aspects have a fundamental role, and fundamentally reshape production relations and optimize business logic, and promote the development of productivity. In this sense, blockchain is essentially a new type of infrastructure that will promote the in-depth integration of information technology and the economy and society, and continuously create new situations in the active support of national strategies.
Although there is no explicit mention of blockchain in the concept of new infrastructure, the technological and industrial changes brought about by the blockchain known as the Internet of Value are having a profound impact on the digital economy. The application of blockchain technology has been extended to many fields, such as finance, Internet of Things, supply chain management, etc. These fields are in line with the new infrastructure. Blockchain technology will play a decisive role in the new infrastructure with its own technical characteristics and become the infrastructure in the new infrastructure.
Judging from the current technological development pattern in the world, among all cutting-edge information technologies, only 5G and blockchain are currently on the same starting line as other countries. Blockchain technology is based on the Internet. China's Internet popularity and infrastructure are relatively advanced, providing a good foundation for the development of blockchain. In the next 20 years, almost all information systems, especially systems where multi-party business data interact, will use blockchain technology. By vigorously developing blockchain now, there is a great opportunity to establish world-class infrastructure, technical standards and applications led by China.
Blockchain service network BSN is such a global infrastructure dominated by China. The BSN is dominated by the National Information Center. China Mobile, China UnionPay and other companies have jointly built and operated it. It is a global blockchain infrastructure network with independent intellectual property rights and controlled access to the Internet in China. As of the end of December 2019, with the strong support of mainstream cloud service providers such as China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, AWS, and Baidu Cloud, BSN has established or is establishing more than 110 public city nodes globally, and has initially achieved Asia , Europe, North America, South America, Africa and Oceania are deployed on six continent BSN city nodes. It is expected that by the end of 2020, the number of BSN city nodes will reach nearly 200.
It is worth mentioning that the repetitive construction problems that are common in traditional infrastructure have been circumvented in the early stages of BSN design. BSN is an environment for blockchain application development, deployment and operation built on top of the current Internet. It is only necessary to use the existing Internet infrastructure to upgrade the blockchain network through system software deployment. Renovation without the need for repeated investment in equipment purchase and pipeline laying, which will greatly reduce construction costs, improve construction efficiency, and avoid waste of resources. It can be said that BSN is to build a high-quality, efficient, safe, reliable, convenient and easy-to-use blockchain infrastructure. It avoids the old road of individualism, repeated investment and the establishment of information islands, and promotes the overall cost reduction and efficiency of the blockchain industry. Rapid development.
BSN empowers new infrastructure
Take the outbreak of the New Coronary Pneumonia outbreak at the beginning of this year as an example. This epidemic has a rapid spread and a wide range of infections. It is the most difficult public health emergency to prevent and control since the founding of New China. . During the epidemic, digital technologies such as remote office, online education, drone distribution, infrared body temperature screening, and health code application were gradually popularized, and into the lives of society and people, digitalization became a way of life. From cloud services to artificial intelligence, from big data applications to logistics and distribution, digital technology has an extraordinary skill. It plays an important role in information aggregation, data sharing, and resource allocation to provide strong support for security and epidemic prevention and livelihood protection.
Blockchain can be applied in many fields that require information interaction, such as: epidemic data disclosure, project operation collaboration, dynamic personnel management, logistics data management, medical product traceability, supply chain finance, etc. In this epidemic, the role of blockchain is relatively small, mainly because the blockchain has just started in China, the cost of development and operation and maintenance is too high, the popularity of applications is low, and the underlying framework is heterogeneous among applications The island of information cannot fully play its role.
In order for blockchain to play a greater role, various blockchain applications must break the LAN-based deployment system. The release of the blockchain service network BSN has really changed the pattern of blockchain application development, deployment and operation. In addition to providing unified operation and maintenance services, it also provides preset chain code packages and a unified intelligent gateway, so that ordinary R & D personnel can develop blockchain applications without the ability of blockchain coding. BSN has greatly reduced the cost of blockchain development, deployment, operation and maintenance, interoperability and supervision, allowing blockchain technology to fully popularize and flourish and promote the upgrade of the information Internet to the value Internet.
"New infrastructure" is a new engine for China's economic development. It is not only an effective means of responding to the downside risks of the global economy under the current epidemic situation, but also can inject strong momentum into China's economic development and accelerate the economic and social digitalization of the general policy. As a cross-cloud service, cross-portal, and cross-layer framework, BSN is a global infrastructure network for deploying and running various blockchain applications. It will be built on the underlying architecture, data island governance, information technology integration, and industrial ecological empowerment. It has played an active and fundamental supporting role in many aspects, and has become an important support for the system construction of the digital industry ecosystem and the high-quality development of "new infrastructure", which will surely run out of greater value on the "new infrastructure" track.