The blockchain industry arms race starts, and talents are the top priority

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2020-07-08 11:38 (UTC+8)

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In the arms race of the blockchain industry, the government has given sufficient policy and financial support. The scarcity of talents in the industry is currently the biggest obstacle to the development of the industry. Whoever has more talents in the f

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Yesterday was the first day of the college entrance examination. I heard that the "new infrastructure" has passed the Chinese test paper of the college entrance examination. To build a stronger "new infrastructure", we have to start from the foundation. Let’s talk about the new infrastructure today.

The white paper of LIBRA last year was like a thunderbolt, awakening the digital currency disputes in mainstream countries. At the same time, it also paid great attention to the underlying technology of digital currency - blockchain. On April 20, 2020, the National Development and Reform Commission formally incorporated the blockchain into the category of new infrastructure, becoming one of the infrastructure systems for smart city construction.

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1. Policy support

After the blockchain industry officially became a national strategy in late October last year, central ministries and commissions such as the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Rural Agriculture, and the Ministry of Education have clearly proposed to promote the application of blockchain in judicial, agricultural and other fields.

In this year's two sessions, blockchain has become a hot topic. Governments around the world have also introduced blockchain-related policies, and more than 20 regions including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, and Chongqing have written blockchain into local government work reports. This year's two sessions submitted blockchain-related proposals covering many fields such as government affairs, rule of law, finance, traceability, ecological environment, cultural copyright, and new infrastructure.

In June 2020, the Hainan Free Trade Port was established. On June 1, 2020, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Overall Plan for the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port", in which "blockchain" was mentioned 6 times as a high-frequency word, involving property rights protection, high-tech industries, social governance, promotion of The transformation of government functions, the deepening of industry opening to the outside world, and the deep integration of several major fields to achieve safe and orderly flow of data. With the support of national policies, Hainan will become the development capital of blockchain technology in China.

National and local blockchain policies are issued frequently to support the blockchain industry and create a better environment for the development of the industry.

2. Financial support

In 2019, China's investment in the blockchain industry accounted for 22% of the total investment in the global blockchain industry. In April this year, the country included blockchain in the scope of new infrastructure for the first time, clearly including blockchain in new infrastructure information infrastructure in . It is estimated that the investment scale of "new infrastructure" will exceed 1 trillion yuan in 2020, and the optimistic estimate is about 1.8 trillion yuan. In 2025, the scale of the "new infrastructure" subdivided industry, the blockchain will reach 38.9 billion yuan.

The blockchain investment of financial institutions is increasing year by year. It is estimated that by 2022, the blockchain technology investment of Chinese financial institutions will reach 9.27 billion yuan, and the growth rate of blockchain investment in Bank of China, insurance, and asset management will reach 61.8%, 27.3%, 66.7%.

As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses arrive, food and grass go first, and financial support is provided, so that the industry can develop without worries.

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3. Manpower support

Talent flow is the most important "weather vane" for observing economic transformation. In terms of policy, capital and manpower, the current relatively short board is talent. In this arms race, blockchain talents are the best soldiers.

In the blockchain industry, there is currently an imbalance between the supply and demand of talents. The blockchain global talent gap is estimated to reach more than 5 million in the next five years, and China will reach more than 750,000.

In the past five years, the number of Chinese blockchain companies has grown from 2,156 to 36,224, a growth rate of nearly 17 times. Due to the increase in the number of enterprises, the number of talents with knowledge of blockchain has also grown significantly. According to the data released by Liepin.com, comparing the blockchain recruitment situation in 2018 and 2019, the proportion of recruitment needs of large enterprises with more than 1,000 employees increased from 17.9% in 2018 to 24.5% in 2019, an increase of 6.6 percentage points. The proportion of demand for enterprise blockchain talents has increased.

It is predicted that the talent demand index of the six major new infrastructure directly related industries will rise sharply, and by the end of 2020, the gap of core technical talents related to new infrastructure will reach 4.2 million. Among the new infrastructure-related talent demand industries, the talent demand in the blockchain industry has increased by 67%, the highest in the new infrastructure-related industries. From the perspective of the distribution of jobs, in 2019, the demand for technical talents in the blockchain industry in my country accounted for the largest proportion, reaching about 44.5%, far exceeding other types of jobs.

As of the end of 2019, 57% of blockchain registered companies are located in Guangdong Province, 6% in Zhejiang Province, 4% in Shandong Province, 3% each in Jiangsu Province, Anhui Province, Hunan Province, and Hainan Province. Most of the companies are located in Guangdong Province Representative of the Pearl River Delta region. At present, most of the blockchain industry is transformed from the Internet industry. In the past college majors, although there were cryptography, computer science and other related disciplines, there was no such professional setting as blockchain.

Regarding how to accelerate the cultivation of blockchain talents, Yang Shenghua, director of the Information and Data Department of the Guangdong Provincial Education Technology Center, said that emerging industries generally form an ecological chain of talent cultivation in accordance with the model of "industrial demand stimulation, industry association promotion, government intervention leading, and industry-university-research integration". In many links, the government's intervention and leadership is the key.

The third is to promote the establishment of the blockchain talent certification mechanism and certification standards as soon as possible. It is recommended to incorporate the blockchain into the national soft examination system and provide policy support in the evaluation of professional titles;