On the afternoon of April 27th, the brand-new conference of Weizhong blockchain brand with the theme of "New Opportunities, New Missions, New Departures" was successfully held in Shenzhen. At the meeting, WeBank officially announced the launch of the new brand "WeBank Blockchain", and proposed a new mission of "building ESG credible infrastructure, promoting fairness and sustainability", and is committed to providing ESG (environmental, social and corporate Governance) in the strategy, the government, the public, enterprises and other parties participate in building a trust base.
Li Nanqing, President of WeBank, Ma Zhitao, Vice President and Chief Information Officer of WeBank, Fan Ruibin, Deputy General Manager of Distributed Business Technology Development Department of WeBank, Head of WeBank Blockchain, Vice President of Huafa Investment Holding Group Co., Ltd. Qin Jun, Qi Yingjie, chairman of West Lake Longjing Tea Co., Ltd. and other guests attended the press conference and delivered speeches. In the round table forum session, under the auspices of Yao Huiya, the head of the technology innovation product department of Weizhong Bank and the executive deputy secretary-general of the Jinlian League, Liu Guohong, assistant to the president of the China (Shenzhen) Comprehensive Development Research Institute, and the Fifth Electronic Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Xiang Lipeng, head of the blockchain innovation team, Zhou Yu, head of China UnionPay blockchain, and other guests had a lively dialogue.
As the first Internet bank in China, WeBank has been actively exploring technological innovation, using blockchain as one of the core technologies of financial technology, helping to improve the efficiency of digital inclusive finance, and extending technical capabilities to government affairs, regulatory technology, agriculture , Medical and other key industries, improve the efficiency of multi-party collaboration and reduce collaboration costs.
As an important initiator and promoter of FISCO BCOS, WeBank began to lay out the blockchain in 2015, and in 2016, it took the lead in initiating the first blockchain alliance in the financial industry in China - the Golden Chain Alliance. The mission of the times for the development of the block chain and even the field of financial technology. In 2017, WeBank realized the independent security and controllability of blockchain technology, and fully open-sourced the blockchain underlying platform FISCO BCOS, which it led to develop, to strongly support the implementation of the national security and controllability strategy for key technologies. After the open source, WeBank actively promotes the application of blockchain technology in industrial digitization to help the development of the real economy.
So far, the open source alliance chain ecosystem built by Weizhong Blockchain and multiple parties has gathered more than 3,000 institutions and enterprises, and more than 70,000 individual members, successfully supporting many industries such as finance, medical care, justice, agriculture, and manufacturing Hundreds of blockchain applications have landed, and there are more than 200 benchmark applications supporting industrial digitization.
(Li Nanqing, President of WeBank)
Li Nanqing, President of WeBank, said in his speech: "In the past seven years, WeBank Blockchain has successively completed two phased missions and goals of 'technology independent controllability and open source' and 'industrial digitization'. Today, financial The mission of technology is shifting from simply improving efficiency to promoting fair and sustainable development. In the new era, WeBank will give full play to its advantages in strategic positioning, agile trial and error, willingness to innovate, and cutting-edge technology exploration. The public blockchain promotes fair and sustainable development, and serves and strives to promote high-quality development, develop the digital economy, accelerate the realization of high-level technological self-reliance, and help carbon peak and carbon neutrality and a series of national strategic goals."
(Ma Zhitao, Vice President and Chief Information Officer of WeBank)
At the press conference, Ma Zhitao, vice president and chief information officer of WeBank, announced the official release of the new brand and brand identity of "WeBank Blockchain". The official release of WeBank's blockchain means that WeBank has reached a new stage in solving trust issues through blockchain technology.
"After nearly seven years of rapid development, Weizhong blockchain has completed the accumulation of concepts, technologies, and ecology, and is about to start a new journey. At present, fair and sustainable development has become a national strategy, and blockchain technology has become a national strategy. Under this new opportunity, the machine that conveys trust will be committed to practicing the ESG concept, building an ESG credible infrastructure, speeding up industrial digitalization, and helping sustainable development.” Ma Zhitao described the new mission of Wezhong Blockchain in this way .
Ma Zhitao also introduced the meaning of the "WeBank Blockchain" brand logo. The brand logo is like a handshake symbol. First, because the blockchain technology itself solves the problem of trust; second, WeBank hopes to cooperate more in the future Partners to jointly build an open source ecosystem of the alliance chain to help more credible ESG practices.
(Fan Ruibin, deputy general manager of WeBank's Distributed Business Technology Development Department and person in charge of WeBank's blockchain)
As for how to build an ESG trusted infrastructure, Fan Ruibin, deputy general manager of WeBank’s Distributed Business Technology Development Department and head of WeBank’s blockchain, said in his speech that the layout plan to realize the new mission of WeBank’s blockchain is " Two foundations + two promotions": Based on the solid foundation of open source technology and open source ecology, promote ESG application and talent cultivation.
Fan Ruibin said that in order to better promote the development of ESG, WeZong blockchain will focus on key technical capabilities such as privacy computing, trusted governance, and distributed digital identity, develop ESG application frameworks and open source the ecology, so as to achieve faster and more efficient Ways to promote the implementation of ESG-related businesses. Through the open source ecology, Weizhong blockchain will also connect more forces to jointly promote the development of ESG industry applications, and focus on cultivating blockchain + ESG compound talents, which is expected to cover more than 100,000 person-times.
The conference also invited representatives of partners in the open-source ecological circle of Weizhong blockchain to share the cases of Wezhong blockchain helping ESG applications to land. In the round table forum, the guests discussed the topic of "opportunities and challenges of blockchain under the new mission".
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