Foresight News update: The General Office of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government issued the “Digital Shanghai” Construction “15th Five-Year Plan” (Planning for the Shanghai “Digital Shanghai” construction “15th Five-Year Plan”). The plan proposes that by 2030, the coverage rate of blockchain application scenarios across categories of the national economy will reach 100% (this indicator is a binding one, with 60% in 2025). The plan also calls for exploring research into mechanisms for establishing innovative pilot zones for the third generation of the Internet (Web3.0), and for building a trusted digital identity platform based on “blockchain + distributed digital identity authentication (DID)”, to support cross-border mutual recognition scenarios such as cross-border data flows, electronic bills of lading, and electronic payments.

Regarding blockchain-related deployments, the plan proposes advancing the upgrading of Shanghai’s national blockchain network hub, strengthening security-and-trust foundational support such as privacy computing, federated learning, and distributed digital identity, and building cross-border and cross-chain infrastructure; guided by the advancement of the digitalization of air and maritime trade, it will further deepen blockchain application scenarios, promote blockchain applications covering financial services, shipping and logistics, green and low-carbon initiatives, government services, industry regulation, and social governance, and build featured blockchain application infrastructure in areas such as the Pudong automobile circulation sector, Jing’an’s “Digital Connectivity Chain Valley,” and Xuhui’s “Digital Chain Space.”

In addition, the plan also includes other digital development goals: by 2030, the added value of the core digital economy industries will account for more than 20% of the city’s GDP; the operating revenue of enterprises in core digital economy industries above the designated size will reach 5 trillion yuan; the scale of public data openness will reach 10 billion records; and the adoption rate of intelligent applications in the government affairs sector will exceed 90%. It will also coordinate and advance work on future communication infrastructure (5G-A, 6G test networks, satellite internet, etc.), the coordinated development of computing power, the construction of a space intelligence system, and international data cooperation.