"New Infrastructure New Opportunities Blockchain Distributed Storage Industry Conference" successfully concluded in Xi'an

On August 4, 2020, the "New Infrastructure New Opportunities Blockchain Distributed Storage Industry Conference" was held at the Xi'an High-tech International Conference Center, under the guidance of the Management Committee of Xi'an High-tech Industrial Development Zone, hosted by the Distributed Storage Branch of the China Association for the Promotion of Private Technology, and co-organized by Xi'an Lingdong and Deepchain Finance.

The conference invited more than 20 industry leaders, 500 guests and 200 media from inside and outside the industry, aiming to explore how blockchain and distributed storage can be effectively combined, and how IPFS distributed storage can empower "new infrastructure".

During the morning event, Zhang Jing'an, former vice minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology, president of Science and Technology Daily, chairman of the China Science and Technology System Reform Research Association, and chairman of the High-tech Development Zone Reform Committee; Ma Yanmin, president of the China Association for the Promotion of Private Science and Technology and former director of the Torch Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology; Yang Hua, director of the High-tech Development Zone Management Committee; Liang Wei, party secretary of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Xidian University; Meng Yan, vice president of CSDN and initiator of the Token Thinking Lab; Cang Rongmin, director of the Server and Cloud Computing Division of ASUS Computer (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., and Kong Yin, senior sales manager of Western Digital Corporation, gave speeches in succession.

In his opening speech, Zhang Jing'an, former vice minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology, said that the epidemic has caused a number of traditional enterprises to go bankrupt, but it has also promoted the development of the new economy and digital economy. Blockchain has played an important role in both epidemic prevention and post-epidemic reconstruction. Promoting the development of blockchain is of great significance and is a major trend in world development.

Ma Yanmin, president of the China Association for the Promotion of Private Technology, elaborated on the relationship between new technologies such as blockchain and the future development of China's economy. He said that it is necessary to upgrade the industry from quantity to quality and from low-end to high-end. In the layout of "new infrastructure", new information technologies such as blockchain, Internet of Things, and big data will play an increasingly important role, and the breakthroughs and innovations of these technologies will be related to China's future national destiny.

China is currently in a golden period of development with multiple opportunities overlapping. Faced with this situation, Yang Hua, director of the Management Committee of the High-tech Development Zone, said that in April this year, blockchain had been listed by the National Development and Reform Commission as a development category of the country's "new infrastructure". At this stage, various regions are actively implementing the combination of blockchain and real life. As the underlying technology of the "new infrastructure", the main innovation of blockchain lies in the implementation of its applications.

The development of "new infrastructure" is inseparable from talents. Liang Wei, Party Secretary of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Xidian University, said in his keynote speech on "New Infrastructure, New Engineering, Industry-Education Integration to Promote Innovative Talent Cultivation" that "new infrastructure" is a new engine for economic development under the normal epidemic prevention and control. At the same time, new engineering is a new driving force for higher education reform, and industry-education integration is the new goal of current school-enterprise cooperation. We should rely on talent cultivation and innovation and entrepreneurship education to establish joint laboratories to promote the cultivation of innovative talents.

After the speeches of the guests, a unique awarding ceremony was held at the event site - Xi'an Lingdong Computer Systems Co., Ltd. and other companies were awarded the title of vice-chairman unit of the Distributed Storage Branch of the China Association for the Promotion of Private Technology.

In addition, Xi'an Lingdong also signed a "Strategic Cooperation Agreement on Industry-Education Integration and Win-Win Cooperation between Schools and Enterprises" with Chen Wu, Vice Dean of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Xidian University, to further strengthen the cooperation between the two parties and cultivate future talents for the construction of "new infrastructure". It is reported that Yan Zitong, founder and chairman of Xi'an Lingdong, has previously served as an innovation and entrepreneurship mentor for the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Xidian University.

After the awarding and signing ceremony, Meng Yan, vice president of CSDN and initiator of the Token Thinking Lab, delivered a keynote speech.

Meng Yan said that after October 24 last year, China's blockchain road began to move towards industrial blockchain. However, the upgrade from traditional information systems to blockchain systems has always been questioned. At present, industrial blockchains are facing various challenges in practice. Although the use of blockchain for governance is very effective and logically problem-free, when industrial blockchains are used in industrial and commercial scenarios, they will face many challenges.

After Meng Yan’s sharing, Cang Rongmin, Director of the Server and Cloud Computing Division of ASUS Computer (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., introduced ASUS’s practices in blockchain.

Cang Rongmin said that ASUS will use blockchain technology to achieve high performance, energy saving and manageability of IT infrastructure. In the future, the company will also focus on cooperating with blockchain companies to empower the token economy and promote the construction of the digital economy.

Following Cang Rongmin’s speech, Kong Yin, senior sales manager of Western Digital, shared the company’s strategies and products. He said that under the “new infrastructure” environment, Western Digital, through its strategy of taking root in China, combined with the latest technologies, will enhance the breadth of its products, provide core storage products, and assist in the construction of western central data.

After Kong Yin's sharing, the whole morning event came to an end. After a short break, the audience came to the venue early again.

In the afternoon event, Yan Zitong, founder and chairman of Xi'an Lingdong Computer System Co., Ltd., Yang Linyuan, managing partner of DFund, and Wang Peng, founder of Deepchain Finance, delivered speeches. In addition to the speeches, the afternoon event also added two roundtable activities for the exchange of views.

In his keynote speech, Yan Zitong, founder and chairman of Xi'an Lingdong, said that at present, blockchain will play a huge role in industrial upgrading and modern governance. At the same time, the monopolized Internet urgently needs to innovate the underlying blockchain technology such as distributed storage. In the future, the distributed storage industry has a market development space of hundreds of billions, and its value and advantages will be increasingly recognized and paid attention to by the society. But at the same time, we should also note that distributed storage is still in its early stages and requires continuous efforts from blockchain people.

DFund managing partner Yang Linyuan made an estimate of the future development speed of distributed storage. Yang Linyuan said that the entire storage track is very broad and is constantly migrating to the cloud storage field, and distributed storage, as a new storage concept, will maintain an annual growth rate of 20% in the next five years.

Regarding the popularity of Filecoin and the investment issues that everyone is concerned about, Wang Peng, founder of Deepchain Finance, analyzed it from six dimensions.

Wang Peng said that Filecoin's good technology and application, coupled with the lack of new stories in the cryptocurrency market as a whole, have led to an influx of more and more funds and practitioners into the Filecoin industry, which has also promoted the popularity of Filecoin. However, if users want to invest in the Filecoin mining machine market, they need to grasp six dimensions: Look at the manufacturer: choose a well-known manufacturer; Look at the parameters: look at the core data, most parameters are meaningless; Look at the efficiency: analyze the investment of every 10,000 yuan and the corresponding packaging speed; Look at the operation and maintenance: see if there is a professional team to support it and whether it is done according to the rules; Look at the price: be vigilant whether the price is too high or too low; Look at fate: do the right thing with the right person.

After Wang Peng's sharing, the roundtable forum with the theme of "Industrial Opportunities and Changes Brought by New Infrastructure" was launched. Guests including Li Yunjie from Chaowei Technology, Li Zhen from Xijie Technology, Wu Yifan from Gigabyte Technology, and Yan Zhiliang from ASUS Computer had in-depth exchanges on IPFS distributed storage and "new infrastructure".

Based on the current status of their own companies, each guest expressed the fact that although the IPFS business currently only accounts for a small part of their company's overall business, it is growing rapidly and has promising future prospects.

After the exchange of views at the roundtable, Zhou Huan, founder of IPFS.Fund, expressed his unique views on distributed networks and blockchain ideas.

Zhou Huan said that distributed networks and blockchain ideas are the ultimate way to defend individual values, because blockchain has five major characteristics: open source sharing, consensus mechanism, encryption mechanism, token economy and smart contracts. It will bring individuals five major effects: free participation, identity equality, power return, value return and contract return. Its purpose is to defend the freedom of person, information, machine, data, wisdom and civilization.

Zhou Huan was followed by Alan, the head of Mars Cloud Mining Operations. Alan said that this year, Bitcoin computing power is expected to be updated by 100E, with an investment scale of about 14 billion RMB. In the first year of the launch of the Filecoin mainnet, the investment scale is also about 14 billion RMB. From this, we can see that Filecoin has a promising future.

The last part of the conference was a roundtable forum with the theme of "Opportunities and Risks, How to Invest in Filecoin".

Guests including Nancy from Interstellar Vision, Yan Zitong, Chairman and Founder of Xi'an Lingdong, Maggie from HashKey Capital, Deng Chao from Golden Computing Cloud, Lai Chuhang from Spacetime Cloud Technology, and Yang Hucheng from BV Capital had in-depth discussions on IPFS distributed storage and Filecoin investment.

Based on their own experiences and feelings, the guests said: Filecoin is very popular and has huge market potential in the future. From an investment perspective, investing in Filecoin should be passionate, but also rational.

After the roundtable event, the host gave a brief summary of the conference. At this point, the "New Infrastructure New Opportunities Blockchain Distributed Storage Industry Conference" came to a successful conclusion.