The state selects three major types of seed industry enterprises to support excellence, and Higentec is listed as the main force of the professional platform

On November 24, 2021, the National Seed Industry Enterprise Supporting Work Promotion Conference was held. The meeting pointed out that to implement the major decisions and deployments of the central government and realize the transformation from a big country in the seed industry to a strong country in the seed industry, it is necessary to become stronger, better and bigger enterprises. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, through comprehensive investigation, analysis and sorting out, has selected some enterprises with comprehensive strength, R&D capabilities and market potential from more than 7,000 enterprises across the country according to the development of enterprises' scientific research capabilities, asset strength, market size, and development potential. . The meeting requested that the main purpose of putting forward the formation of my country's enterprises is to classify according to the development level of my country's seed industry and the status quo of enterprises, clarify key directions and goals and tasks, take targeted support measures, give precise support, and accelerate the cultivation of aircraft carrier-type leading enterprises. , invisible champion enterprises, and professional platform enterprises, forming a comprehensive and powerful seed industry enterprise formation. The meeting also studied a number of measures to provide more powerful and effective service support for the innovation of advantageous enterprises, and to promote the implementation of the seed industry enterprises' support and optimization actions.

As a key common technology platform for the biological seed industry, HIgentec Bio will, in accordance with the national strategic deployment, focus on the needs of the seed industry's turnaround, give full play to the role of the national team and main force of specialized platform enterprises, and support the development of various entities in the industry, academia, and research in the seed industry. Basic common innovations such as gene analysis and phenotype identification, undertake relevant resource identification tasks deployed by the state, and provide technical support such as phenotype data, genetic data, and supercomputing analysis.

Be a professional platform enterprise in the seed industry

Brand "National Team" + Industry "Unicorn"

HIgentec Bio is a biological seed industry platform enterprise established by more than ten leading enterprises and professional institutions in the CITIC Agriculture joint industry with a joint investment of 474 million yuan under the advocacy of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the support of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology and other relevant ministries and commissions. HIgentec Bio deeply integrates biotechnology and data technology (BT + DT), and provides urgently needed new genes, new technologies, and new materials for animal and plant breeding through gene integration, trait integration, data integration, and material integration.

HIgentec Bio is committed to building an industry-leading key common technology platform, an excellent national molecular breeding center in China, and an outstanding global life science innovation enterprise. In the future, HIgentec Bio will focus on the key common technology needs of the seed industry, deploy "one body with two wings", implement the wings-spreading action, start a new journey of development in the golden decade, and create innovative leading unicorns and unicorns supported by subversive hard-core technology. China's seed industry "chips".

Create a professional platform with full coverage and strong strength

Build industry-university-research transformation and ecological win-win

HIgentec Bio has a world-class molecular detection and bioinformatics analysis platform, strong biotechnology strength and data computing capabilities, and a high-level domestic and foreign expert team composed of international talents. It provides molecular breeding, bioinformatics analysis, germplasm resource creation, variety testing for more than 400 customers including government departments at all levels, scientific research institutes, colleges and universities, and leading enterprises at home and abroad. One-stop comprehensive solutions such as evaluation, third-party testing, and intelligent application of blockchain and big data.

With the full support of CITIC Group, HIgentec Bio has successively introduced high-level R&D and management experts from international seed industry giants such as Bayer, Corteva, Syngenta, and large domestic enterprise groups. There are more than 160 employees, and the proportion of scientific researchers 75%, and 18 people were selected into national, provincial and municipal talent plans. In terms of platform construction, the "HIgentec National Rice Molecular Breeding R&D Base" with a construction area of ​​56,000 square meters was officially put into use on September 23, 2019; the Molecular Breeding Technology Intelligent Creation Center, the Crop Germplasm Innovation and Utilization Center, and the Bioinformatics Center were established. Computation Center, Bio-Intelligence Big Data Application Center, Variety Testing and Evaluation Center, Seed Quality Molecular Testing Center and other six major technology platforms; United National Supercomputing Center Changsha, the first in the industry to set up a biological seed industry supercomputing center; United Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences The Institute of Biotechnology established a joint laboratory for biotechnology regulations and science; cooperated with the National Information Agricultural Engineering Technology Center, the National Agricultural Technology Promotion Center, Baidu, Jifei, Furongyun, etc. to jointly build a 100+ smart farm innovation consortium; Build a big data and artificial intelligence application innovation research center.

Now it has obtained the qualifications of National High-tech Enterprise, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory, Postdoctoral Research Station, Crop Seed Quality Testing (CASL) qualification certification and genetically modified ingredient qualification certification. HIgentec Biotechnology actively promotes industry-university-research cooperation, and has built five strategic regions in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Greater Bay Area, the Yangtze River Delta, the Southwest Region, and Nanfan Silicon Valley. It has successively cooperated with more than 400 domestic and foreign animal and plant seed industry customers and established cooperation A win-win strategic partnership.

Continuously improve independent and controllable innovation capabilities

Leverage technological innovation to drive carry over and overtake

HIgentec Bio has always adhered to the drive of innovation, and its annual R&D investment accounts for more than 30% of its main business income. Fruitful results have been achieved in the fields of information management software, blockchain and intelligent big data applications, and new product testing systems. He has applied for more than 70 patents of various types (including 1 international PCT patent application), and has been authorized 20 invention patents, 1 utility model patent, and 6 appearance patents; applied for more than 30 new plant variety rights, and has 7 items have been authorized; more than 38 items of software copyright have been applied for, and 29 items have been authorized.

HIgentec Biology will benchmark the technology and service level of the international professional platform, continue to improve the ability of independent and controllable innovation, and help the leading enterprises in the seed industry in my country to break into the world-class seed industry echelon.

HIgentec Bio is the key enterprise of various formations

Provide basic key common technical support

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, through comprehensive investigation, analysis and sorting out, has selected some enterprises with comprehensive strength, R&D capabilities and market potential from more than 7,000 enterprises across the country according to the development of enterprises' scientific research capabilities, asset strength, market size, and development potential. , and preliminarily sorted out the enterprise formation composed of the three major advantageous enterprises of "strong advantages, complementing shortcomings, and breaking problems".

Strong Dominant Formation:

For areas with a competitive advantage

The basic structure of the array:

For the top of the "olive", 19 companies were initially selected.

Main tasks and goals:

For rice and wheat, the two major ration crops, establish and improve a commercial breeding system and consolidate and strengthen breeding innovation capabilities. In the next 5-10 years, we will aggregate excellent resources and high-quality traits, accelerate the cultivation of a batch of breakthrough breeding materials and core varieties, increase production, and continue to maintain the competitive advantage of provenance.

HIgentec Biological Service Features:

For many years, HIgentec Bio has deeply cultivated advantageous ration crops, formed in-depth technical cooperation with advantageous units of industry, universities and research institutes, provided technical support services for the national seed industry scientific and technological research project plans in related fields, and accumulated rich experience in key common technology research and integrated application. In the future, HIgentec Bio will continue to give full play to its existing advantages and help enterprises with strong advantages to enter the world-class seed industry echelon.

Complement the short board formation:

For areas that are far from international

The basic structure of the array:

For the central part of "Olive", 33 companies were initially selected.

Main tasks and goals:

Focus on the two major crops of corn and soybeans, as well as cotton, oilseeds and potato grains. Fully explore excellent germplasm resources and genes, accelerate the application of modern breeding technology, and comprehensively improve the level of breeding innovation. In the next 5-10 years, the gap with the international advanced level will be narrowed as soon as possible in terms of varieties, yield, quality and resistance.

HIgentec Biological Service Features:

In recent years, HIgentec Bio has actively explored the research and development of modern breeding technology in the field of corn, soybean, cotton, oilseeds and potato crops, accumulated a large number of original research results, and helped several companies to make breakthroughs in high-quality germplasm resources and gene mining sexual progress. In the future, HIgentec Bio will serve the short-circuit formation enterprises with key common technical support, and comprehensively promote high-quality catch-up development.

Puzzle-breaking formation:

For areas with card points

The basic structure of the array:

For the bottom of the "olive", 18 companies were initially selected.

Main tasks and goals:

Focus on a few facility vegetables, focus on broccoli, onion, white enoki mushroom and other varieties, accelerate the introduction of excellent germplasm resources, promote the integration of production, education and research, accelerate the strengthening of basic research and application, independently cultivate a batch of breeding materials and core varieties, and gradually realize the main Production substitution. In the next 5-10 years, progress will be made in breeding theory and germplasm innovation, breeding materials and technical means will be more abundant, the blank of domestic varieties will be filled as soon as possible, and the independent control of provenance will be realized.

HIgentec Biological Service Features:

As a "National Molecular Breeding Service Platform", HIgentec Biology supports enterprises to focus on research and development and accelerate the filling of domestic gaps. In the future, HIgentec Bio will actively guide scientific research units, seed industry bases and advantageous enterprises to strengthen the connection, jointly build a research and development platform and an industry-university-research innovation consortium, explore and improve supporting facilities and professional services such as breeding research and development, production and processing, and accelerate the construction of industry-university-research institutes. The commercialized breeding system that integrates integration, breeding, breeding and promotion will shorten the time for technological transformation, and support my country to achieve independent and controllable seed sources and self-reliance and self-improvement of the seed industry.