Guangzhou

Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou University and South China University of Technology all offer blockchain-related professional courses in the city. Meanwhile, the well-known universities in Guangzhou City have followed the footsteps of technological innovation and basically set up special blockchain research laboratories (institutes), for example, CUHK and UWI have set up special blockchain laboratories (Li & Lu, 2020) , which is sufficient to reflect the importance of the new blockchain technology in promoting economic growth.

Beijing

A total of six colleges and universities in Beijing have offered relevant blockchain professional courses. Among them, the construction of blockchain courses can be traced back to as early as July 2016, and Central Finance was the first higher education institution in China to set up blockchain-related professional courses.

Shenzhen

There is only one school that offers professional courses related to blockchain, and that is Shenzhen University. It is worth mentioning that, as one of the leaders of economic development in Guangdong Province, Shenzhen is not behind Guangzhou. Southern University of Science and Technology and Shenzhen University have opened blockchain special labs to lay out research related to new blockchain technologies.

Shanghai

There are five universities in Shanghai that offer blockchain courses, namely Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and Tongji University, the number of universities offering courses is only as high as Beijing.

Hangzhou

There is only one university that offers blockchain-related professional courses, and that is Zhejiang University.