"Innovation infrastructure will focus on supporting scientific research, technology development, and product development. It has distinct technological characteristics and technology orientation. It is bound to actively promote the development of blockchain technology itself and further enhance its empowerment level."
Under the new infrastructure boom, blockchain practitioners have also ushered in official "titles." Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the General Administration of Market Supervision, and the National Bureau of Statistics have officially released 9 new professions including "blockchain engineering and technical personnel" and "blockchain application operator" to the public. Blockchain technology, as a disruptive new infrastructure technology that can cause profound changes in production relations, has more detailed distinctions among its employees and types of work.
Blockchain is one of the infrastructures for building a digital society, and it is also regarded as a new type of infrastructure. By building a new trust mechanism, the basic functions of information technology and the depth and breadth of applications can be greatly expanded.
Important engine
Entering the era of blockchain 3.0, its decentralization and data anti-counterfeiting functions have begun to receive attention in many fields such as medical care, justice, logistics, and e-government.
The development of blockchain has roughly gone through three stages so far, namely: blockchain 1.0 era, blockchain 2.0 era and blockchain 3.0 era. The application of blockchain 1.0 era mainly focuses on digital currency; the blockchain 2.0 era introduces smart contract technology, and the application has expanded from a single currency field to other financial fields involving contract functions; entering the 3.0 era, blockchain decentralization The security and data anti-counterfeiting functions have begun to receive attention in many fields such as medical care, justice, logistics, and e-government.
Blockchain has such a profound impact because its own characteristics are highly compatible with the digital transformation needs of the current society. In the era of agricultural economy, land was used as an important means of production, and in the era of industrial economy, energy such as oil was used as an important means of production. Similarly, the digital economy era regards data as the most important means of production. While the means of production have changed, the development of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, supercomputing, and quantum computing has also greatly increased productivity. However, the production relationship determined by the current Internet model is centralized. The data as an important means of production exists in the form of "islands", with poor circulation and increased management costs, which can no longer fully adapt to the rapid development of productivity. Blockchain technology is considered to be a revolution in production relations. It is a new computing paradigm and collaboration model that uses mathematical principles instead of third parties to create credit at low cost in an untrustworthy competitive environment. A management method" has changed the current trust mechanism of the entire Internet and the application scenarios and operating rules of many industries, and can greatly expand the breadth and depth of human collaboration, thereby promoting the transition from the "Internet of Information" to the "Internet of Value". Therefore, it is considered to be one of the indispensable technologies for the future development of the digital economy and the construction of a new trust system.
my country has achieved good results in changing the current high cost of blockchain application development and deployment. For example, the "blockchain service network" jointly initiated and established by the National Information Center and other units is now officially commercialized. It is the world's first infrastructure network that is independently innovated by China and controls the right to access. In the future, it has the potential to develop into a global blockchain value Internet, with underlying architecture, data island governance, information technology integration, industrial ecological empowerment, etc. Play a more active and fundamental supporting role in many aspects, and become an important engine for the construction of the system and new infrastructure of the major powers and the digital industry ecosystem.
Enhance empowerment
The acceleration of blockchain and the integration of cutting-edge technologies such as 5G and cloud computing will surely further expand its enabling field and improve its enabling level
Productivity determines production relations. Judging from some current “blockchain+” cases, blockchain as a collaborative technology should better empower the construction of a digital society in the 3.0 era, and it is also highly dependent on the new generation of production information technology and infrastructure. Only support can exert a greater effect. Under the wave of new infrastructure, the accelerated integration of blockchain with 5G, cloud computing and other cutting-edge technologies will surely further expand its empowerment field and improve its empowerment level.
According to the authoritative interpretation of the National Development and Reform Commission at the press conference, the information infrastructure of the new infrastructure includes communication network infrastructure, new technology infrastructure, and computing power infrastructure. The construction of these infrastructures can significantly improve the entire data chain Processing power. At the same time, the integrated infrastructure and innovative infrastructure of the new infrastructure will support the transformation and upgrading of traditional infrastructure and fully realize the effective connection between scientific research and industry. The coordinated advancement of information infrastructure, integrated infrastructure, and innovative infrastructure will enhance the digitization capability of the entire society, accelerate the digitization process of the entire society, and make the element of data more prominent, thereby greatly expanding the empowerment field of the blockchain 3.0 era .
In addition to expanding the enabling field of blockchain, the new infrastructure will further enhance the enabling level of blockchain. Blockchain is an integrated innovative technology, a new application mode of distributed data storage, point-to-point transmission, consensus mechanism, encryption algorithm and other computer technologies. The blockchain itself is deployed on the network, and its operating mechanism relies on a large amount of real-time data communication, which has high requirements for network facilities. With the increase in the number of distributed nodes, the demand for computing power for the widespread application of blockchain in the future will greatly increase. In addition, with the increase in the field of empowerment, the application scenarios faced by the blockchain will become more complicated. As a new technology, it also has technical problems such as low efficiency and high security risks, which need to be further improved and resolved.
From the perspective of specific integration support mechanisms, the new infrastructure will vigorously develop communication network infrastructure represented by 5G, Internet of Things, industrial Internet, and satellite Internet, and new technological infrastructure represented by artificial intelligence and cloud computing, with data centers Computing power infrastructure represented by, intelligent computing center, etc. The construction of these infrastructures has released positive information for the development of blockchains that rely on network communications and increased computing power. As one of the three major types of infrastructure for new infrastructure, the innovation infrastructure will focus on supporting scientific research, technology development, and product development. It has distinct technological characteristics and innovation orientation. It is bound to actively promote the development of blockchain technology itself and will further Improve the level of blockchain empowerment.
Break through the bottleneck
We must attach importance to technological synergy and ecological integration, promote the construction of technology clusters, and create an ecological environment for integrated development
As a typical representative of new infrastructure, blockchain is also expected to play a supporting role in other infrastructures. Taking the industrial Internet in the new infrastructure as an example, the blockchain's decentralized industrial data distribution and user-oriented customized production are expected to break through the two major bottlenecks of data security and corporate profitability in the development of the industrial Internet. Therefore, in the current wave of new infrastructure construction, the development prospects of blockchain have become brighter and will usher in a rapid development. According to an article by People's Daily Online, in 2025, the scale of the new infrastructure segment industry will reach 38.9 billion yuan. While vigorously developing the blockchain, we also need to do the following work.
First of all, we must attach importance to technological synergy and ecological integration, and promote the construction of technology clusters. From the perspective of previous technological revolutions, the dominant technology group that caused the technological revolution is becoming more and more complex in structure. At present, the new generation of technological revolution characterized by intelligence covers a new generation of information technologies such as blockchain , 5G, Internet of Things, mobile Internet, big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. These technologies support each other and form a The technological group of the industrial revolution has a strong internal logical relationship. Therefore, we should attach great importance to the coordination of blockchain facilities construction and other related infrastructure construction in the new infrastructure, do a good job of top-level design, make overall considerations, promote the large-scale formation of the dominant technology group, and create an ecological environment for integrated development.
Secondly, we must break down data barriers and promote the confirmation and circulation of data. New infrastructure will help the development of the digital economy, and data as an important means of production, its liquidity determines the level of economic development. Whether it is productivity improvements brought about by cloud computing and artificial intelligence , or changes in production relations triggered by blockchains, it is necessary to consolidate the foundation of the ownership of data, the means of production. The government can actively use policy toolkits to promote data verification, and make use of blockchain and other related technologies in data verification, so that data can truly flow, trade, and use.
Finally, we must further strengthen security protection, attach importance to technical protection and legislative norms . At the first meeting of the Central Network Security and Informatization Leading Group hosted on February 27, 2014, it was pointed out that "Network security and informatization are the two wings of one body and the two wheels of driving. They must be planned, deployed, and promoted in a unified manner. , Unified implementation". The privacy protection mechanism of the blockchain also provides a hidden channel for the dissemination of harmful information. When harmful information is written into the blockchain, it cannot be modified or deleted, which creates a new network security problem. Therefore, on the one hand, it is necessary to attach importance to the research and development of independent, safe and controllable network security technology. While strengthening the research on important links such as blockchain-related encryption technology and user authentication, it is necessary to actively explore the research and development of detection and development for blockchain platform applications. Technologies such as analysis and early warning can detect and prevent illegal and criminal activities using blockchain in a timely manner. On the other hand, block chain will have a profound impact on production and life and social governance , and traditional legal norms in conflict or no legal basis for such issues will continue to emerge, prospective strategic research needs in the development process, the formation of norms feasible Coping strategies.