On Dec.21,2018, the 2nd New Smart City Peak Forum of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area was held in Guangzhou Science Museum.
Conference site
The great event has attracted the eyes of governments and institutions around China. Over 600 experts and leaders from pilot smart cities departments attended the summit forum, gathering around to discuss how to foster the transformation of governance in the digital age with emerging technologies.
As a leading blockchain enterprise, an underlying operating system with ‘sovereign hierarchical management’ function has been largely accepted by governments and businesses, which was self-developed by ShenZhen GAChain Technology. Liu Yi, the deputy general manager of GAChain, was invited to give a speech on the theme of ‘Application of Blockchain in E-government’ by the organizer of this peak forum.
Chinese governments are vigorously pushing the reform of service-oriented governance.Despite being mentioned dozens of times, the data sharing issue among departments is still a blocker in the way of building ‘digital government’.
Up till now the governments have successively issued the “Interim Measures for the Administration of Government Information Resources Sharing”, the “Guidelines for the Construction of the “Internet + Government Services” Technical System” and the “Implementation Plan for the Integration and Sharing of Government Information Systems” , providing basic compliance for cross-department data sharing. At the same time,different places of city governments around China have also explored a series of useful practices.
However, the promotion of cross-departmental data sharing did not reach a satisfying result -- a few data sharing platforms, poor shared platform system, sad submission data quality and low data utilization rate
How to effectively promote the cross-sector data sharing to build "digital government" still remains an urgent issue.
In January 2018, the “Administrative Approval Service Platform” for Guangzhou Nansha District has caught the attention of the superiors when the project approved. The platform is independently developed by Shenzhen GAChain Technology based on its innovative blockchain technology. After several months of business data testing, the platform has been optimized and realized solving a series of problems that existsd in the current e-government system.
Compared with traditional platforms, “Nansha District Administrative Approval Service Platform” has the characteristics of intelligent and efficient automation, transparent and traceable business process, and information encryption.
The platform uniquely combines centralized management and decentralized business together and hands over management rights to the government, realizing automated supervision in the true sense. Besides, it adopts technologies like point-to-point transmission and encryption to reduce the manual costs and enhance the efficiency and data security.
At present, the Nansha District Administrative Approval Center has basically achieved the remarkable results of “zero running” in certain matters, where blockchain technology has played a significant role in opening up data silos and improving efficiency of business. The Administrative Approval Service Platform developed by GAChain has been rewarded as an excellent case in the annual “Smart City” section of the Information Association of China.
The Administrative Approval Service Platform
The transmission and storage of government business data on the GAChain public chain is a remarkable attempt for governments utilizes blockchain technology.
In the past, governments worried about the security of data on public chain, and the technical bottleneck of the industry also limited the application promotion. For the first time, the GAChain has solved all the problems technically, and realized the seamless connection between the blockchain and the existing technology, which truly reflects the value of the blockchain.
According to Liu Yi, GAChain will firmly follow the national policy of digital government and keep improving the blockchain technology to integrate the top-level design of the country with grassroots data collection.
Liu Yi, the deputy general manager of GAChain
The policy news and industry trends from the peak forum indicated that the government is transforming towards a sharing, integrating, coordinating and service-oriented government, and has explored to promote more and more data information emerging technologies in developing e-government and solving data isolation problems.
2018 is the first year of blockchain application, and it is also a year filled with ups and downs. After the heat of market cool down will people realize that only the enterprises that really dedicate in developing and promoting blockchain technology will last longer. GAChain keeps the spirit of pragmatic work deep in mind. How to effectively introduce the blockchain to the society is not only the concern of the government departments, but also the social responsibility and obligation of each enterprise.