Build ESG credible infrastructure to promote fair and sustainable development

On the afternoon of April 27th, the Wezhong blockchain brand new conference with the theme of "New Opportunities, New Missions, and New Departures" was successfully held in Shenzhen. At the meeting, WeBank officially announced the launch of the new brand "WeBank Blockchain", and put forward the new mission of "Building ESG Trusted Infrastructure, Promoting Fairness and Sustainability", and is committed to ESG (environment, society and corporate governance). The government, the public, and enterprises in the governance) strategy participate in building a foundation of trust.

Li Nanqing, President of WeBank; Ma Zhitao, Vice President and Chief Information Officer of WeBank; Qin Jun, Chairman of West Lake Longjing Tea Co., Ltd. Qi Yingjie and other guests attended the conference and delivered speeches. In the roundtable forum session, under the auspices of Yao Huiya, head of WeBank's Technology Innovation Products Department and executive deputy secretary-general of the Golden Chain Alliance, Liu Guohong, assistant to the president of China (Shenzhen) Comprehensive Development Research Institute, and the Fifth Electronics Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Guests such as 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, taking blockchain as one of the core technologies of financial technology, helping to improve the efficiency of digital inclusive finance, and extending its 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 has been deploying blockchain since 2015, and in 2016, it led the first blockchain alliance in the financial industry in China, the Golden Chain Alliance, and shouldered the responsibility of promoting the blockchain. The mission of the times for the development of blockchain 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 led by it, which strongly supports the implementation of the national strategy to promote the security and controllability of key technologies. After open source, WeBank actively promotes the application of blockchain technology to industrial digitization to help the development of the real economy.

So far, the open source alliance chain ecosystem jointly built by Weizhong Blockchain and multiple parties has gathered more than 3,000 institutions and enterprises, and more than 70,000 individual members, and has successfully supported many industries such as finance, medical care, justice, agriculture, and manufacturing. Hundreds of blockchain applications have been launched, and there are more than 200 benchmark applications supporting industrial digitalization.

(Li Nanqing, President of WeBank)

Li Nanqing, President of WeBank, said in his speech: "In the past seven years, WeBank's blockchain has successively completed two phased missions and goals of 'technological independence, controllability and open source' and 'industrial digitization'. Today, financial The mission of science and technology is changing from simply improving efficiency to promoting fair and sustainable development. In the context of the new era, WeBank will give full play to its advantages in strategic positioning, agile trial and error, innovation willingness and cutting-edge technology exploration. The public blockchain promotes fair and sustainable development, and serves and strives for a series of national strategic goals such as promoting high-quality development, developing the digital economy, accelerating the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, and helping carbon peaks and carbon neutrality."

(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 launch of the new brand and brand identity of “WeBank Blockchain”. The official release of Wezhong Blockchain means that WeBank has reached a new stage in solving trust problems through blockchain technology.

"After nearly seven years of rapid development, the Wezhong blockchain has completed the accumulation of ideas, technology and ecology, and is about to start anew. At present, fair and sustainable development has become a national strategy, and blockchain technology has become a The machine that transmits trust, under this new opportunity, will be committed to practicing ESG concepts, building ESG credible infrastructure, speeding up industrial digitalization, and helping sustainable development." Ma Zhitao described the new mission of Weizhong blockchain. .

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 join hands for more cooperation in the future. Partners, build a consortium chain open source ecosystem and help more credible ESG practices.

(Fan Ruibin, Deputy General Manager of WeBank Distributed Commercial Technology Development Department and WeBank Blockchain Leader)

Regarding how to build a trusted ESG infrastructure, Fan Ruibin, deputy general manager of WeBank’s distributed business technology development department and WeBank’s blockchain leader, said in his speech that the layout plan to realize the new mission of WeBank’s blockchain is “ Two foundations + two promotions": Promote ESG application and talent cultivation with a solid foundation of open source technology and open source ecology.

Fan Ruibin said that in order to better promote the development of ESG, Wezhong 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 provide faster and more efficient solutions. Ways to promote the implementation of ESG-related business. Through the open source ecosystem, Wezhong blockchain will also connect more forces to promote the development of ESG industry applications, and focus on cultivating blockchain + ESG compound talents, which is expected to cover more than 100,000 people.

The conference also invited representatives of partners from the Wezhong blockchain open source ecosystem to share the cases of Wezhong blockchain helping ESG applications to be implemented. In the roundtable forum, the guests discussed the topic of "Opportunities and Challenges of Blockchain under the New Mission".

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