China aims to largely complete its national blockchain network by 2030, with expanded use planned across trade, finance, manufacturing, and agriculture.
Regulation & Gov ·
China has set 2030 as the target date to largely complete a national blockchain network under its 15th Five-Year Plan for National Informatization, released by the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, a senior policy coordinating body within the Communist Party. The plan calls for expanded blockchain deployment across trade, finance, manufacturing, and agriculture, with particular emphasis on the Yangtze River Delta for trade and finance applications and the Chengdu–Chongqing region in southwestern China for manufacturing and agriculture at scale.
The 2030 completion target makes explicit a project already referenced in China's national development framework released earlier in 2024 and further specified in a joint Communist Party and State Council directive from October. The plan also prioritizes stronger technical standards for blockchain and broader use of the technology in data circulation and trading infrastructure.
China distinguishes sharply between cryptocurrency, which faces a mainland ban on related business activities, and blockchain technology itself, which the state has identified as a national priority. The framing aligns with precedent set in 2019 when President Xi Jinping called for greater blockchain investment as a strategic capability area.