COFCO Nutrition & Health Research Institute （NHRI） serves as the COFCO Group’s core R&D platform. In response to global trends in technological advancement and industrial transformation, COFCO NHRI aligns with COFCO Group’s Sci-Tech Empowerment Enhancement Initiative. Guided by its mission of “Rooted in life sciences, Dedicated to Nutrition and Health; Innovating to Link the Future, Creating a Better Life through Science and Technology", and vision "Surpassing Customer Expectations through Innovation, Leading Industrial Development with Science and Technology”, an integrated development framework of “One Entity and Two Dimensions”. Anchored in the "Dual-Drive Approach" for cultivating new quality industries and upgrading traditional sectors, COFCO NHRI is committed to building a COFCO-style integrated research and development institution that seamlessly connects technology research, commercialization of research outcomes and industrial implementation, positioning itself as：the Group’s core engine for new-quality productive forces; an innovative, R&D-driven high-tech industrial company; an operating platform for strategic emerging industry clusters in the agri-food sector.

       Rooted in cutting-edge agri-food technologies with a focus on biotechnology, COFCO NHRI carries out pioneering technological research in three key areas: biomanufacturing, future health solutions and novel proteins. It builds a complete industrial system for a new-quality industrial system and develops strategic emerging and future industries. Centered on COFCO’s core businesses and guided by both market and industrial needs, COFCO NHRI delivers one-stop technical R&D, product development and integrated customized solutions for grains, oils, sugar, alcoholic beverages, meat, tea and other product lines. It also provides key generic technological support in nutritional science, sensory science, flavor perception, food quality and safety, continuously advancing the transformation, upgrading, quality enhancement and efficiency improvement of traditional industries.

       COFCO NHRI owned more than 30 national and provincial-level accredited platforms. It has won 1 Gold Medal of the China Patent Award, 2 National Science and Technology Progress Awards, and more than 80 awards from provincial and ministerial authorities, academic societies and industry associations. Having led or participated in 46 national key R&D programs, COFCO NHRI plays an active role as a key executor of national sci-tech strategies for grain, oil and food sectors.

       Facing the future industrial needs, relying on its Phase II development project, COFCO NHRI will construct a full-spectrum innovation park integrating sci-tech innovation, entrepreneurship and innovation incubation, proof-of-concept validation, shared equipment and sci-tech services. The institute will further gather innovative resources, boost technological innovation capacity, accelerate the transformation of scientific achievements into real productive capacity, support COFCO Group in building itself into a world-class enterprise with global competitiveness and influence, and better serve the high-quality development of agri-food industry.

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