China Carbon Neutral Development Group Limited announced that the Group has formally established the Digital Technology Committee in accordance with the latest business progress, and appointed Dr. Chen Bangdao ("Dr. Chen") as its chairman to fully implement the Group's layout and development in the area of carbon neutral digitalization. Dr. Chen is an expert in the field of international computing. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a master's and doctorate degree in computer science of University of Oxford.

His research directions include interactive security, electronic financial payment security, ad hoc network security and sensor network security. Dr. Chen's doctoral dissertation topic was "Using Human Interactive Security Protocols to Secure Payments". Dr. Chen's is a technological expertise in financial information security, blockchain theory and practice, computer security analysis, interactive security protocols construction, payment system construction, and mobile platform application design and implementation.

Dr. Chen and his mentor, Professor Bill Roscoe (Academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford 2003-2014) have created the University College Oxford Blockchain Research Centre of University of Oxford (blockchain.univ.ox.ac.uk) (The only official blockchain research institute of and managed by the University of Oxford). Dr. Chen and his mentor, Professor Bill Roscoe, co-founded Blockhouse, a UK technology company, that University College Oxford (being the oldest college of University of Oxford, founded in 1249) is one of the shareholders. Dr. Chen participated in the establishment of the Oxford-Hainan Blockchain Research Institute and the first provincial blockchain pilot site in China, the Hainan Free Trade Port Blockchain Pilot Zone.