On the morning of November 16, the national development and Reform Commission held a press conference in November. At the meeting, Meng Wei, spokesman of the national development and Reform Commission, said when talking about the "mining" governance of virtual currency that virtual currency is a specific virtual commodity, which is not issued by the monetary authority, has no legal compensation and compulsion, is not a real currency, and should not and cannot be used as a currency in the market. Recently, the national development and Reform Commission organized a special video conference on the governance of "mining" of virtual currency, informed the monitoring and remediation of "mining" of virtual currency, deployed the work of the next stage, required all provinces, regions and cities to earnestly assume territorial responsibility, establish systems and pay attention to monitoring, clean up and renovate the "mining" activities of virtual currency in their own regions, and strictly investigate and punish the problems involved in the computer rooms of state-owned units "Mining" activities. In this regard, Meng Wei said that in the next step, we will focus on industrial centralized "mining", state-owned units involving "mining" and bitcoin "mining". For units implementing residential electricity price, if they are found to participate in virtual currency "mining" activities, they will study the imposition of punitive electricity price, so as to form a high-pressure situation of continuously regulating virtual currency "mining" activities. In September this year, the people's Bank of China, together with relevant departments, issued the notice on further preventing and dealing with the speculation risk of virtual currency trading, which made it clear that virtual currency does not have the legal status of legal currency, its related business activities belong to illegal financial activities, and there are legal risks in participating in virtual currency investment and trading activities. "Regulating the 'mining' activities of virtual currency is of great significance to promote the optimization of China's industrial structure, promote energy conservation and emission reduction, and achieve the goals of carbon peak and carbon neutralization on schedule." Meng Wei pointed out that because the business activities related to virtual currency are illegal financial activities, the "mining" behavior of virtual currency has extremely serious harm. Virtual currency "mining" Large energy consumption and carbon emissions do not play a positive role in driving industrial development and scientific and technological progress. In addition, the risks derived from the production and trading of virtual currency are becoming more and more prominent. Its blind and disorderly development has a serious adverse impact on promoting high-quality economic and social development, energy conservation and emission reduction. In addition, Meng Wei said that in order to resolutely implement the relevant deployment requirements for the remediation of "mining" of virtual currency, the national development and Reform Commission, together with the Central Propaganda Department, the central network information office, the Ministry of industry and information technology and other relevant departments, jointly issued the notice on the remediation of "mining" activities of virtual currency, clearly adding the "mining" activities of virtual currency to the list The catalogue of "elimination" in the Guiding Catalogue for industrial structure adjustment (2019 Edition) requires effective measures to comprehensively rectify the "mining" activities of virtual currency. (outlook new era)