On October 18, Zhejiang University-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute (ZJUI) invited the Senior Vice President and CSO (Chief Strategy Officer) of CSCC (Beijing) Financial Information Service Co., Ltd Mr. DONG Gang to a seminar. Named as “new infrastructure of industry and finance Internet in the era of digital economy”, Mr. DONG Gang gave a report at the Engineering 100 class to discuss and analyze the current industrial and financial industry trends and provide a new vison for students’ career development, which has aroused student’s learning interest.
Start from the product called “Yunxin”of Zhongqi Yunlian, Mr. DONG Gang analyzed the new applications of blockchain technology and internet in the field of industrial finance in the new era with simple and concise language and clear illustration. As an electronic confirmation voucher platform for accounts payable, “Yunxin” has created great benefits for the society, helped core enterprise export redundant commercial credit and improve its core competitiveness and helped countless SMEs solve the problem of asset input. His report has inspired students to develop products driven by social needs, improve their research and develop and innovation ability of core technology, shoulder social responsibility and pay back society.
Mr. Dong Gang pointed out that blockchain technology may become the key to solve the problem of duplicated product mode and plagiarism among various industry. Besides this, it can also promote the transformation from disorderly competition of multiple platforms to the establishment of multi-platform ecological alliance. Moreover, it may even lead the human to the Post Internet era from the former Internet era. He said that “To get rid of the flawed centralization and enter into decentralization of the general trend, we should focus on the new infrastructure of industrial and financial Internet in the era of digital economy and use our strength and technology to build the foundation and framework of the future.”
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Noted that “digital asset credibility and exchange, digital product pricing and ownership transfer are the problems we are facing at present and need to be resolved by the younger generation.” Mr. DONG Gang called the students to devote themselves to the tide of transformation from information exchange to value exchange and inject fresh blood into it. After listening to his passionate speech, the students were also encouraged and their enthusiasm for innovation and entrepreneurship was expanded.
▲ Prof. HU Huan was awarding the certificate to Mr. DONG Gang
ZJUI Engineering 100 is a special course for freshmen. Senior scholars and industry elites from home and abroad give excellent lectures in the field of engineering to students, and lead students to practice design projects in interdisciplinary teams. Previously, ZJUI students have been given thought-provoking seminars by Chairman of IBM Greater China Group, Professor Luke p. Lee, vice President of the University of Singapore, and Dr. Tan Don, IEEE member and former chairman of IEEE power electronics branch. Delivered by the outstanding experts, these courses containing several interdisciplinary project design will help students learn the industry trends, enrich engineering knowledge, expand their minds and improve interdisciplinary practice ability.
