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The plan is to use a blockchain platform to keep track of staff performance.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army seeks to conduct a more objective assessment of the troops.
The Chinese army could adopt blockchains technologies to manage their personnel data, stimulate training and mission performance, as well as deliver soldiers with tokens that could be used as collectible rewards. This is a strategy that experts say could give more immediate incentives to military personnel compared to previously used reward systems.
To the extent that blockchains technologies gain importance in the management area, their proper use in the military field could boost innovation in the development of army management, according to the information reported by the official newspaper of the Liberation Army of the Chinese people (PLA).
Blockchain technology, described as an open and distributed ledger or a transaction log between two parties that cannot be manipulated, could be used to store information from military personnel, including basic information, professional background, missions performed and Rewards received, the media commented, noting that such data would be technically guaranteed to be real and reliable.
Since a blockchain platform can record information about military training, professional skills and assigned missions, a soldier's performance record could be calculated and evaluated. In this way good performance could be rewarded with additional tokens, while poor performance could result in token deduction, according to the official media report.
This token system could also generate an objective assessment of the troops and help motivate military personnel, the newspaper added.
This token system could also generate an objective assessment of the troops and help motivate military personnel, the newspaper added.
About it, an anonymous expert, familiar with the administrative work of the PLA, told a media outlet that the token system could be a more immediate incentive compared to reward and promotion systems previously used by the Chinese People's Liberation Army . Among these systems, the citations of merits that are delivered only after outstanding achievements and the promotion of ranks, based on years of service and long-term performance, are mentioned.
"It sounds similar to the KPI (key performance indicator) system that provides feedback to troops quite frequently," experts said, noting that the PLA might still need to find out what the rewards might be. The tokens are probably not allowed to circulate as money, so they could only be used to exchange for rewards if the system is created, experts predicted.
Blockchain technology could also provide a secure data transmission, while providing the military with an advantage in terms of confidentiality, concludes the PLA newspaper report.
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