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visitor tours a display center of the National Big Data Comprehensive
Pilot Area in southwest China's Guizhou Province, May 22, 2019.
[Photo/Xinhua] China
is eyeing to further boost the technological application and industrial
development of blockchain over the next decade, according to a
guideline released by industrial development and cyberspace affairs
authorities. By 2025, the country
aims to take the comprehensive strength of its blockchain industry to
the most advanced level in the world, said a document jointly released
by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Office of
the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission. The
country's blockchain industry and its industrial standard system shall
begin to take shape by 2025, with the blockchain technology applied to
multiple economic and social fields, the document noted. In
the next five years, China shall support the establishment of three to
five backbone enterprises with international competitiveness, as well as
a number of innovation-driven enterprises and three to five blockchain
industrial clusters. By 2030, the
blockchain industry shall see further expansion in both comprehensive
strength and industrial scale, and deepen integration with
next-generation information technologies such as big data and artificial
intelligence, the document added. Currently,
there are around 75,000 blockchain-related enterprises in China,
according to data from corporate information provider Tianyancha.
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