CCTV news (news broadcast): on the afternoon of October 24, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee conducted the 18th collective learning on the current situation and trend of blockchain technology development. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, stressed that the integrated application of block chain technology played an important role in new technological innovation and industrial transformation. We should take blockchain as an important breakthrough in independent innovation of core technology, clarify the main direction of attack, increase investment, strive to conquer a number of key core technologies, and accelerate the development of blockchain technology and industrial innovation.

Chen Chun, a professor of Zhejiang University and academician of Chinese Academy of engineering, explained the problem and gave his opinions and suggestions.

All comrades of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee carefully listened to the explanation and held discussions.

Xi Jinping made a speech during his presided over the study. He pointed out that the application of blockchain technology has extended to digital finance, Internet of things, intelligent manufacturing, supply chain management, digital asset trading and other fields. At present, major countries in the world are speeding up the development of layout blockchain technology. China has a good foundation in the field of blockchain. It is necessary to accelerate the innovation and development of blockchain technology and industry, and actively promote the integrated development of blockchain and economic society.

Xi Jinping emphasized that we should strengthen basic research and enhance original innovation ability, and strive to make our country take the forefront of theory in the emerging field of block chain, occupy the commanding heights of innovation and gain new industrial advantages. It is necessary to promote collaborative research, accelerate core technology breakthroughs, and provide safe and controllable technical support for the development of blockchain applications. It is necessary to strengthen the research on blockchain standardization and enhance the international discourse power and rule-making power. We should speed up industrial development, give full play to market advantages, and further open up innovation chain, application chain and value chain. It is necessary to build the industrial ecology of blockchain, accelerate the in-depth integration of blockchain and advanced information technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, Internet of things, and promote integrated innovation and integrated application. We should strengthen the construction of talent team, establish and improve the talent training system, create various forms of high-level talent training platform, and cultivate a number of leading figures and high-level innovation teams.

Xi Jinping pointed out that we should seize the opportunity of technology integration, functional expansion and industrial segmentation of block chain technology, and play the role of block chain in promoting data sharing, optimizing business processes, reducing operating costs, enhancing synergy efficiency, and building a credible system. We should promote the deep integration of the blockchain and the real economy, and solve the problems of small and medium-sized enterprises' loan financing, bank risk control and department supervision. We should use blockchain technology to explore the innovation of digital economic model, provide power for creating a convenient, efficient, fair competition, stable and transparent business environment, provide services for promoting the supply side structural reform, realizing the effective docking of supply and demand of various industries, and provide support for accelerating the continuous transformation of new and old kinetic energy and promoting high-quality economic development. We should explore the application of "blockchain +" in the field of people's livelihood, actively promote the application of blockchain technology in education, employment, pension, precision poverty alleviation, medical health, commodity anti-counterfeiting, food safety, public welfare, social assistance and other fields, so as to provide more intelligent, convenient and high-quality public services for the people. It is necessary to promote the combination of the underlying technical services of the blockchain and the construction of a new smart city, explore the promotion and application in the fields of information infrastructure, intelligent transportation, energy and power, and improve the intelligent and accurate level of urban management. It is necessary to use blockchain technology to promote large-scale interconnection among cities in terms of information, capital, talents and credit investigation, so as to ensure the orderly and efficient flow of production factors in the region. It is necessary to explore the use of blockchain data sharing mode to realize the common maintenance and utilization of government data across departments and regions, promote business collaborative processing, and deepen the reform of "running once at most", so as to bring better government service experience for the people.

Xi Jinping emphasized that we should strengthen the guidance and standardization of the block chain technology, strengthen the research and analysis of the risk of the block chain, closely follow the development trend, and actively explore the law of development. It is necessary to explore the establishment of a security system that adapts to the technical mechanism of blockchain, guide and promote blockchain developers and platform operators to strengthen industry self-discipline and implement security responsibilities. We should implement the rule of law in the management of blockchain, and promote the safe and orderly development of blockchain.

Xi Jinping pointed out that the relevant departments and their leading comrades should pay attention to the current situation and trend of the development of the block chain technology, and improve the ability to use and manage the block chain technology, so as to make the block chain technology play a greater role in building a network power, developing the digital economy, and helping the economic and social development.