Beijing News: The Central Bank Digital Currency Research Institute is recruiting, and these professional graduate students have opportunities

On October 10, the central bank released a recruitment notice for its branches and subordinate units in 2020 on its official website. Among them, the central bank's digital currency research institute is recruiting 6 people. Full-time college graduates between the ages of 18 and 35 who are included in the national unified enrollment plan, working people in society with work experience in commercial financial institutions, economic departments and related majors, and returned overseas students can apply.

Specifically, 5 people are being recruited to be responsible for the software system development of legal digital currency and related models, and the technical development of legal digital currency trading terminals. The corresponding majors required are computer science, cryptography, and microelectronics, and the minimum academic qualification is a postgraduate. Those with experience in system architecture design, blockchain technology development or application, front-end design and development, big data platform development, cryptographic algorithms, security protocols and security architecture design and implementation, and mobile Internet R&D are preferred.

Recruiting one person to be responsible for analysis in the fields of financial technology, digital currency, and payment and clearing. The minimum academic qualification required is a doctorate, and the corresponding majors are statistics and econometrics. Candidates with research experience in the fields of financial technology, digital currency, and payment and clearing will be given priority.

In addition to the Digital Currency Research Institute, the recruiting units also include the People's Bank of China Service Center, the People's Bank of China Party School, the People's Bank of China Financial Research Institute, the Financial Times, the People's Bank of China Credit Information Center, the People's Bank of China Clearing Center, the China Banknote Museum, the China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation, etc. The registration period is from 10:00 on October 11, 2019 to 22:00 on October 20, 2019.

In June this year, Facebook released the Libra coin white paper, and global attention to digital currency suddenly increased. Since then, legal digital currency has frequently appeared in official statements of Chinese regulators.

For example, on August 2, the central bank stated at a video conference on its work in the second half of 2019 that it would accelerate the pace of research and development of legal digital currency; on August 10, Mu Changchun, deputy director of the Payment and Settlement Department of the central bank, stated at the China Finance 40 Yichun Forum that "the central bank's digital currency can be said to be on the verge of being released"; on August 18, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued an opinion on supporting Shenzhen in building a pilot demonstration area for socialism with Chinese characteristics, mentioning support for innovative applications such as digital currency research in Shenzhen; in early September, a reporter from the Beijing News learned that Mu Changchun has been confirmed as the director of the Digital Currency Research Institute, and he has also opened a course on "Frontiers of Technology and Finance: Libra and Digital Currency Outlook" on the "Get App".

Media reporters noticed that Shenzhen Financial Technology Co., Ltd., which was established by the Central Bank Digital Currency Research Institute in 2018, has also been intensively recruiting recently. In early August, it posted information on recruiting blockchain R&D engineers and researchers. (Beijing News)