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Arthur Falls
The Ether Review #47 - Epic Infrastructure in China
29 minutes Posted Nov 7, 2016 at 10:59 am.
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**In Brief:**
Chinese multinational, Wanxiang Group, has purchased over 700 hectares of land on which to build a smart city where it plans to experiment with blockchain based systems.
Wanxiang Group is a Chinese multinational focused primarily on automotive parts manufacturing. Recently Wanxiang has been moving into finance and agriculture. Now, with the establishment of the Wanxiang Blockchain Labs research organization and Fenbushi Capital investment fund, Wanxiang is making big moves into the blockchain space. To add to the intrigue, the group recently purchased 770 hectares of land in the Chinese province of Hangzhou where it plans to build a “smart city”. The goal is to house it's many employees in a setting that makes use of it's technological portfolio.
Andy Dan, Project Manager of Wanxiang Blockchain Labs joins to discuss what is quickly becoming the most epic of blockchain stories.
http://www.blockchainlabs.org/
http://fenbushi.vc/
Content: Andy Dan, Arthur Falls