Danish Delegation of Blockchain in Xiangcheng
On November 15th, Suzhou Xiangcheng gathered the third Danish delegation in High-speed Rail New Town (HSR), including representatives from Danish Consulate in Shanghai and Beijing, Denmark Innovation Center, Danish companies in Blockchain. They started with a visit of Planning Development Museum of Xiangcheng, then continued at UNIS Cloud experience center, and ended up with a discussion conference with Secretary Gu Haidong, the Chief of Xiangcheng District.
“3 months ago, my colleague and I visited Suzhou Tongji Fintech Institute which is also located in Xiangcheng district. One month ago, ATV delegation came to Xiangcheng. Two weeks ago, we brought our executive director Soren to Suzhou, participating the International Engineering Technology Innovation Forum. And now coming back again!” expressed by Mr Martin Bech, Innovation Attache at Innovation Centre Denmark & Consulate General Shanghai.
This time, the purpose of the delegation is to explore more opportunities in blockchain between Denmark and Suzhou Xiangcheng. The Innovation Centre Denmark collaborates a lot with universities, companies and government in Blockchain. “We have an innovation officer who works specifically on this topic. It’s the first time to bring a delegation of blockchain experts come to China.”, mentioned by Mr Bech.
Ms Ida Jeng, the leader of Denmark’s TechPlomacy in Asia and Senior Tech Adviser of Denmark’s tech ambassador also joined the delegation. She mentioned that, Denmark is the first country in the world to designate science and technology ambassadors. “Denmark aims to establish this governmental platform to promote more exchanges in STI sector as a foreign affairs.”
Today, in such a digitaized world we will more and more need those new technologies such as AI, Big data, IoT and blockchain to enhance human life and become more efficient.
“Blockchain and distributed ledger Technologies have an accelerating effect on innovation process in the public sector, in finance, in logistics and many other areas. Blockchain promises to be the step-up innovation that will become the backbone of all exchanges and transactions in the future, thereby also empowering AI and IoT to unfold.” explained by Prof Roman Beck, the Head of European Blockchain Center.
Denmark is at the centre of Europe, and has been a leading nation in blockchain. While China is increasingly investing in research and development of blockchain innovation. “Embedded in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, where nearly $1 trillion will be spent on highways, railroads, pipelines and seaways, China also develops a new digital infrastructure with blockchain as a cornerstone. The People’s Bank of China holds 44 patents circling around blockchain application through its research wing, Digital Currency Research Lab ”. mentioned by Prof Beck.
Blockchain, is also a key industry in HSR, Xiangcheng. In order to attract more related projects and talents to set up in HSR, the government introduced supportive policies in settlement, operation, talents etc.
EU Sino, embedded in Xiangcheng government, act as a trusted link between foreign companies and Chinese government, is bridging EU and China. We look forward to further collaboration with Denmark governments and companies.
Please contact us to know more about support policies of Xiangcheng district.