Synthetic biology is an emerging interdisciplinary research field, a new research paradigm serving the life sciences, and has great potential for development. In this regard, Zhang Li, founder and CEO of Yuanyi (Tianjin) Biotechnology Co., Ltd., explained: "Synthetic biology can use gene editing technology to achieve 'making something out of nothing' in a 'cell factory'. Our core technology is to construct high-yield engineered bacteria through a series of research and operations such as gene design, metabolic pathway and enzyme optimization, multi-round gene rearrangement, directed evolution, and screening. ”
In the laboratory of Yuanyi (Tianjin) Biotechnology Co., Ltd., an 8-tank fermentation system is particularly eye-catching, with orange fermentation broth rotating in the tank, and the air is filled with the slightly sweet taste of yeast. The company is located in the core area of Wuqing Beijing-Tianjin Industrial New Town, mainly engaged in the research and development of cutting-edge synthetic biology technology, using "engineering" thinking, designing and building new gene metabolism pathways, developing cell factories with extremely high productivity, and providing one-stop solutions including strain development, fermentation process optimization, industrial fermentation production, product separation and purification, and terminal product development.
Based on the diversification of the synthetic biology industry, Yuanyi Biotech has been involved in functional feed raw materials and additives, pharmaceutical raw material rationing, health food ingredients, medical beauty product ingredients, nutritional health food, biotechnology and other application fields. In the field of skin care products, it has carried out joint development of functional skin care products with well-known domestic time-honored enterprises, and reached joint development intentions with a number of well-known companies in the field of skin care products and medical aesthetics; in the field of medicine, it has maintained a high degree of close cooperative relations with listed pharmaceutical companies, jointly developed innovative drugs, and reached strategic cooperation with many other well-known pharmaceutical companies.
At present, Wuqing District thoroughly implements the "Ten Actions" of Tianjin to promote high-quality development and the "3+1+1" work idea of the District Committee, focusing on the development of the city with industry, the promotion of production by the city, the integration of industry and city, and the integration of urban and rural areas, and adheres to the spatial layout of "one core leading, multi-point support, and global linkage", planning and building Wuqing Beijing-Tianjin Industrial New City with high standards, focusing on building a new industrial city, and promoting the continuous emergence of new quality productivity with intelligent technology and biomedicine as the "double high leading".
The core area of Wuqing Beijing-Tianjin Industrial New Town, where Yuanyi Biotech is located, is a gathering place for the biomedical industry. The Institute of Synthetic Biology of Tianjin University, which is also located here, is one of the first batch of key projects to settle in the core area. The institute is mainly involved in the field of synthetic biology scientific research, technology development and transfer, industrialization of scientific and technological achievements and other fields, the technical achievements are mainly used in the biomedical industry, has been with Wuhan Jiabiyou, Zhejiang Xinhua, Zhejiang Medicine and a number of industry leaders to carry out technical cooperation, and incubated and cultivated a number of industrialized scientific and technological achievements such as lycopene and citronellol.
Led by Yuan Yingjin, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the institute has gathered a group of high-level scientific research and industrialization talents, and has built three major platforms for biosynthesis full automation, artificial cell factory, and GLP animal verification for biomedicine, food, new energy and new materials industries, and has the ability to transform one-stop achievements from technical achievements to pilot process packages.
At the same time, a steady stream of resources and policies are also gathering in the field of biomedicine. On the basis of extensive research for enterprises, Wuqing Beijing-Tianjin New Industrial City learns from the advanced practices of first-class science and technology innovation parks at home and abroad, combines the direction of key industries in the core area, and takes the needs of enterprises as the guide, researches and formulates policies and measures, and vigorously supports the construction of common technology platforms such as gene sequencing synthesis and biological component design, as well as gene therapy. The construction of R&D platforms for high-end biological products and new pharmaceutical preparations such as cell therapy will promote the transformation of technological achievements in Wuqing District, and form a support policy system covering the whole chain of scientific and technological innovation and the whole cycle of enterprise development.
Sincerity builds a nest to attract phoenixes, and talents come in droves. Biomedical enterprises and institutions represented by Yuanyi Biology and Tianjin University Synthetic Biology Frontier Research Institute have taken root in Wuqing. At the just-concluded Beijing Investment Promotion Conference, Wuqing District plans to sign a total of 42 projects, with an estimated investment of 14.324 billion yuan, of which the estimated investment of biomedical projects is 460 million yuan, including Laitai Pharmaceutical, Beijing Beibaorui Biotechnology, Yameng Medical Technology, Tianjin Zhonghe Kanghua Health Technology Co., Ltd., and Li Kangyuan, etc., injecting new vitality into Wuqing's biomedical highland.
When General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Tianjin, he placed high hopes on the development of new quality productivity, Wuqing Beijing-Tianjin New Industrial City will further focus on the "three new" and "three quantity", strive to be the first and do good deeds in the development of new quality productivity, accelerate the high-quality development of Wuqing Beijing-Tianjin Industrial New Town, closely follow the development orientation of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, focus on rejuvenating the city with industry, promoting production with the city, integrating industry and city, and integrating urban and rural areas. High-end industries will gather in the new highland and the Beijing-Tianjin Science and Technology Talent Innovation City, promote the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei to go deeper and more practical, and make new and greater contributions to Tianjin's comprehensive construction of a modern socialist metropolis.