State Council: Promote the application of blockchain technology in housing transactions and property registration, and build a digital urban governance foundation

According to the “15th Five-Year Plan for Urban Renewal,” issued by the State Council on May 22, 2026, the State Council explicitly proposed promoting the application of blockchain technology in areas such as housing transactions and property rights registration to enhance the intelligence and refinement of urban governance. The plan simultaneously calls for the development of a foundational City Information Modeling (CIM) platform—creating an integrated, unified, data-fused, and highly collaborative digital foundation for cities. It aims to improve the CIM foundational database and standards system; implement coding for buildings and municipal infrastructure; establish a national foundational information database for buildings and municipal infrastructure; and strengthen the three-tiered urban operations management service platform system—covering national, provincial, and municipal levels—to advance “unified network-based management” of urban operations.