Recently, Lu Fuping, the Party Secretary and President of Tianjin University of Science and Technology, led a delegation to Beijing Guotou High-tech to carry out cooperation and exchanges in industry-university-research collaboration. The relevant colleagues from the College of Food Science and Engineering and the College of Bioengineering accompanied.

He Jun, the general manager of Guotou High-Tech, along with the main responsible persons of Guotou High-Tech and Guotou Zhonglu, attended the exchange meeting. Before the meeting, Lu Fuping had a brief meeting with Ding Houwen, the chairman of Guotou High-Tech. Both sides expressed their willingness to carry out in-depth exchanges and cooperation.

During the meeting, Lu Fuping stated that Tianjin University of Science and Technology, in response to national strategies and regional development needs, takes talent cultivation and scientific and technological innovation as the driving force, and actively explores an educational model of "integration of industry and education, convergence of science and education, and interdisciplinary integration". The school collaborates with multiple entities to jointly establish modern industrial colleges and platforms for integrating science and education. It also builds characteristic discipline and professional clusters around key industrial chains in Tianjin. He pointed out that school-enterprise cooperation and integration of industry and education are important measures to promote the school's implementation of the "Pioneer Plan" and build a pioneer ecosystem. He hopes that this visit will serve as an opportunity to promote multi-faceted and multi-form connections between the two sides in areas such as industry-university-research cooperation, achievement implementation, and talent cultivation, and establish a closer cooperative relationship. Realize in-depth cooperation in synthetic biology, high-value-added food development and other fields, and form a mutually beneficial and win-win situation.

He Jun expressed his welcome to the school's visit. He introduced that Guotou High-Tech, as a forward-looking and strategic emerging industry investment platform of Guotou Group, focuses on biomanumanufacturing and synthetic biology in the field of food and life sciences. Through means such as technology research and development, equity investment and achievement incubation, it is committed to promoting technological breakthroughs, achievement transformation and industrial upgrading in the food and biomanumanufacturing industries. He expressed the hope that the school could provide more technical and talent support for the development of enterprises and jointly enhance the level of "industry-university-research" cooperation.

Liu Zhongzhong, the person in charge of Guotou High-Tech, had an in-depth discussion with Professor Xia Xiaole from the College of Food Science and Engineering and Professor Liu Yihan from the College of Bioengineering, focusing on synthetic biology technology, related product research and development, market prospects and forms of cooperation. Chen Hao, the general manager of Guotou Zhonglu, along with his team, had an exchange with Professors Chen Ye and Wang Hao from the College of Food Science and Engineering on issues such as the current situation of juice processing and the high-value utilization and development of fruit residue by-products.

Written by Wang Hao