On October 16, the press conference of the core enterprises invested by the National Modern Seed Fund in Agriculture Zhongguancun was held.
At the event, under the joint witness of the participating leaders and guests, Modern Seed Industry Development Fund, Beijing Xiannong Investment Management Co., Ltd., and Beijing Ward Chenlong Biotechnology Co., Ltd. signed an investment cooperation agreement, and the cooperative development of dual-formation enterprises further accelerated the development of agricultural Zhongguancun, helped Chinese breeding enterprises enter the international competition stage, and supported the long-term development of national seed industry formation enterprises.
The Modern Seed Industry Development Fund is an equity investment fund established in 2013 with the approval of the State Council in order to implement the spirit of the Several Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Accelerating the Promotion of Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation and Continuously Enhancing the Supply Security Capacity of Agricultural Products (Zhongfa [2012] No. 1) and the Opinions of the State Council on Accelerating the Development of Modern Agricultural Species Industry (Guo Fa [2011] No. 8). Modern Seed Industry Development Fund is the only government special equity investment fund focusing on the seed industry at the national level, and it is also the only professional investment institution in China that is also listed in the list of three major national seed industry formation enterprises in crops, livestock and poultry, and aquatic products. As the "national team" in the field of seed equity investment, Modern Seed Industry Development Fund is taking the revitalization of the national seed industry as its mission and going all out to promote the development of China's seed industry.
Beijing Ward Chenlong Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Ward Shares"), as the core enterprise of China Pinggu Agricultural Zhongguancun, is a group company that invests in bio-high technology, a national key leading enterprise in agricultural industrialization, one of the world's three major poultry breeding companies, and selected as a national livestock and poultry seed industry "problem-breaking" formation enterprise. Independently cultivated 5 "Jing" series laying hen varieties, with a market share of more than 50%; Cultivated 3 varieties of "Ward" series broilers, successfully breaking the long-term monopoly of foreign white-feathered broilers. In 2022, it was selected into the list of enterprises with "strong advantages" and broiler "problem-breaking" formations in the national livestock and poultry breeding industry, and in 2023, the breeders independently bred went abroad for the first time, taking a historic step for mainland livestock and poultry breeds to enter the international market.
Seed enterprises have a long R&D cycle and large R&D investment, which requires the support of financial institutions and investment institutions. "The injection of the Modern Seed Industry Development Fund proves that Ward shares have been recognized by the national industrial capital. With the blessing of the national seed industry development industry fund, Ward Co., Ltd. will live up to the title of national seed industry formation enterprise, continue to carry out the digital expression integration and innovation of biotechnology, information technology, biotechnology and information technology, build a new model and new format of digital economy in the poultry industry through the industrial Internet platform of 'smart laying hen', help the mainland seed industry achieve breakthrough innovation and leapfrog development, complete the curve overtaking of foreign breeding enterprises, accelerate the internationalization process of breeders, and achieve ' World-class poultry breeding and promotion integrated enterprise's great vision. Zhou Guizhen, vice chairman of Beijing Ward Chenlong Biotechnology Co., Ltd., said.
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Source: Zhongguancun, Pinggu Agriculture, China
Editor: Nong Xiaoli