Baima Future Food Research Institute (hereinafter referred to as the Institute) was established on December 18, 2020, located in Nanjing National Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone (the only one in The Yangtze Delta). It is a public institution jointly organized by nanjing Baima High-tech Industry Development Zone Management Committee of Jiangsu Province and Jiangnan University. By the end of 2020, the institute was approved as a provincial technological innovation center.

Institute to acquire general secretary "four dimensions" as the guide, to "created in China, the Chinese wisdom, international collaboration, a world-class" as the vision, to create the field of food technology innovation center for national key task, to break through a number of key technologies of restricting the sustainable development of food industry of our country bottleneck, grab the future food frontier science and technology, Build a high-quality achievement transformation and service platform, build a future food high-tech transformation system, incubate, cultivate and expand a group of first-class food enterprises with core innovation ability, It is committed to building itself into a national scientific and technological innovation and achievement transformation platform with high concentration of resources and powerful hematopoietic function, leading the innovation and development of the food industry in the Yangtze River Delta region and even the whole country, and having an international influence.

Institute in jiangnan university as the core of the construction unit, focusing on food nutrition and health control technology, intelligent big data technology, a new resource food biosynthesis technology manufacturing and equipment, food materials and food directional recombinant technology design and five research direction, has brought together by a member of 23 academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, cheng wei led, A research team composed of top scientists in the field of food at home and abroad. In order to promote collaborative innovation, the Institute initiated the establishment of "Future Food Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance", gathering 38 leading enterprises, universities and institutes from major consumption regions in China. The Institute was elected as the first director unit.

The institute carries out the director responsibility system under the leadership of the council. On May 21, 2021, the institute held its first council meeting and elected Zhu Chaoping, deputy director of Nanjing Science and Technology Bureau and executive Deputy Director of Nanjing National Agricultural and High-tech District Management Committee (Preparation) as the chairman, and appointed Professor Liu Yuanfa, dean of school of Food Science and Technology of Jiangnan University, as the first president. The institute consists of 7 departments, including office, Strategic Planning Department, Science and Technology Management Department, Science and Technology Innovation Department, Foreign Cooperation Department, Public Testing service Center and Financial sharing Service Center. The internal management system of "decision-making, management and implementation" has been initially established.

According to the construction and operation mode of "Research Institute + platform company + project subsidiary company", the Research Institute and platform company and project subsidiary company will jointly build a closed-loop operation system of "R&D -- investment -- transformation" with multiple legal entities complementing each other. As an asset-light management platform, the Institute focuses on industrial technology strategy research, innovation factor development and integration, innovation resource introduction, major RESEARCH and development project organization, public research platform construction, etc. Jiangsu Baima Future Food Research Institute Co., LTD. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nanjing National Agricultural And High Zone Development Group), as a platform company with heavy asset investment, is mainly responsible for the site and equipment support of the research institute and the project subsidiaries incubated by the research institute, and participates in the project subsidiaries. The subsidiary company of the project is an independent enterprise legal person, which is absolutely controlled by the talent team. The Research Institute Co., Ltd. and enterprises in related fields have equity shares. It accepts the assessment management and financial support of the Research institute and focuses on industrial technology research and development, achievement transformation and enterprise incubation.

Nanjing Fuzhe Future Food Research Institute Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as Fuzhe Research Institute) is the first project subsidiary incubated by the Research Institute. In August 2021, Fuzhe Research Institute was selected as a new RESEARCH and development institution in Nanjing. The first batch of seed factory projects (healthy fats and baking) were settled in the Future Food Industrial Park (Phase I) with a construction area of 5,600 square meters. All the work is being carried out in an orderly and fast way.

Nanjing Fuzhe Future Food Research Institute Co., Ltd. is a technology-oriented service enterprise with registered capital of 5 million yuan. It is the first project company incubated by Baima Future Food Research Institute. It is a public institution jointly organized by the Management Committee of Baima High-tech Zone and Jiangnan University of the Institute, and it is also the first batch of provincial technological innovation center approved by Jiangsu Province.

The company takes Professor Xu Yongjiang's team as the core. Professor Xu's team has been engaged in the green manufacturing of edible oil, special oil for the food industry and the development and research of healthy food for a long time. They have published more than 200 academic papers in this field, including more than 130 SCI papers and more than 100 patents. It has won 4 second prizes of national Scientific and technological Progress and technological invention, and more than 10 ministerial and provincial awards. In 2021 the company successfully passed the new research and development institutions for the record, and approved by jiangsu provincial focus on research and development program (modern agriculture) "new liquid health food seed plant key technology and equipment" project (total of 10 million yuan), and combined with the jiangnan university graduate workstation approved graduate workstation in jiangsu province "2021".

Aiming at the forefront of key industries such as food in the future, the company focuses on innovative directions such as food nutrition and health regulation, biosynthesis of new food resources, food additive manufacturing and equipment, and active prevention and control of food safety. With oil and protein new resources mining, nutrition and health, and green manufacturing as the core, the company breaks through the basic-general-industrialization chain. To foster an innovative development system with food enterprises as the main body, market-oriented and deep integration of industry, education and research, to provide technology development, technical consultation and technical services for future food-related enterprises, and to industrialization of core technological products, to provide strong support for improving the level of innovation and development of the food industry in the future.