Led by six academicians, +45 projects have been signed, and the Tengchong Scientist Forum special events have been held in Mile for four consecutive years

Vice Governor of Yunnan Province and Director of the Tengchong Scientist Forum Organizing Committee Wang Xueqin, Co-chair of the Tengchong Scientist Forum, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and former President of Peking University Xu Zhihong, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, President of the Chinese Society of Food Science and Technology, Professor at Beijing Technology and Business UniversitySun Baoguo, Secretary of the CPC Honghe Prefecture Committee Xie Jian each delivered speeches. Deputy Secretary of the CPC Honghe Prefecture Committee and Governor of the Prefecture People's Government Luoping featured a special promotion on the Red River. Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Yunnan Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Deputy Director of the Tengchong Scientist Forum Organizing Committee and Director of the Organizing Committee Office Gao Jun hosted the opening ceremony. Chairman of the Yunnan Biodiversity Conservation Foundation Cheng Lianyuan attended the opening ceremony.

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Chen Xiaoya, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Member of the Academic Committee of the Tengchong Scientist Forum Hacken Cheung , academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Zhang Xinyou, President of Jiangsu University Zou Xiaobo, Researcher at the Institute of Genetics and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences Xie Qi each deliver keynote speeches sharing cutting-edge concepts and research achievements, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Hao Xiaojiang presided over the keynote speech session.

Wang Xueqin stated that Yunnan ranks first nationwide in planting area and output for more than ten types of agricultural food resources, including tea, coffee, fresh cut flowers, and macadamia nuts. It combines the vast markets of South and Southeast Asia with diverse application scenarios spanning seven temperature zones from tropical to cold regions, making it a fertile ground for the development of biomanufacturing and the food industry. In recent years, Yunnan's technological innovation strength has steadily improved, and support for technological innovation has been continuously increasing. We sincerely invite participating scientists and entrepreneurs to conduct in-depth inspections and coordination in Yunnan, explore investment and cooperation opportunities, promote the implementation and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and share in the dividends of industrial development.

Xu Zhihong pointed out that the global technological revolution is deepening and evolving, biomanufacturing is reshaping the global industrial landscape with disruptive force, and innovation and upgrading in the food industry are key supports for safeguarding people's well-being and cultivating new quality productive forces. Honghe Prefecture is rich in plateau specialty agricultural resources, providing a solid industrial foundation for the implementation of biomanufacturing technology. He put forward three expectations for this event: using theory as a bridge to deepen ideological exchanges, taking practical action as the key to promote achievements rooting in the land, and promoting talent to take root deeply through long-term achievements. 2026 marks the 5th anniversary of the Tengchong Scientists Forum, and this year it will hold its first overseas special event in Bangkok, Thailand, continuously expanding the forum's "circle of friends."

Sun Baoguo stated that food technology is the core force for implementing the broad food concept, activating local specialty resources, and cultivating new quality productive forces. Yunnan is rich in biodiversity, and Mile has embarked on an integrated development path of "specialty planting + deep processing + brand cultivation." This special event focused on the deep integration of biotechnology and the entire food industry chain, aligning with the national strategic direction of cultivating new quality productive forces. He proposed adhering to full-chain innovation "from field to table," deepening collaboration among industry, academia, research, and application, and writing papers on the ground.

Gao Jun stated that Yunnan is known as the "Kingdom of Plants" and the "Kingdom of Biological Organisms," with unique biological resources and a solid foundation for plateau specialty agriculture. It is an important base for China's natural biological resources and specialty food raw materials. The province is accelerating the transformation and leap of biomanufacturing and food industries toward high-end, intelligent, and green development, leaping from a province rich in biological resources to a strong province in biomanufacturing. We sincerely invite academicians, experts, entrepreneurs, and investors to deeply cultivate Yunnan and focus on Honghe, jointly promoting the implementation and transformation of scientific and technological achievements and sharing new opportunities for industrial development.

Xie Jian stated that Honghe Prefecture has hosted related events of the Tengchong Scientist Forum for three consecutive years. This special event is highly aligned with Honghe's development, with a location that can radiate to the RCEP market, a solid raw material foundation and a complete industrial chain, and precise alignment of cutting-edge technologies in science and technology with industrial demand. Honghe Prefecture will uphold the principles of being business-friendly, safe, and business-protective, striving to create a first-class business environment and fully safeguard technological cooperation and enterprise development throughout the entire cycle.

event held a centralized signing ceremony for the "Double Recruitment and Double Introduction" projects. This special event facilitated 23 investment promotion projects involving a total investment of 2.681 billion yuan; simultaneously, 22 talent recruitment and intelligence introduction projects were facilitated.

The signatories cover local governments, universities, research institutes, and leading industry enterprises. Cooperation areas cover multiple tracks including agricultural technology, food processing, biotechnology, new materials, new energy, and traditional Chinese medicine. This transforms the synergy advantages of government, enterprises, and research into tangible momentum for industrial development, providing solid support for strengthening and supplementing the biomanufacturing and food industry chains in Honghe Prefecture.

Academician Chen Xiaoya's team focuses on plant secondary metabolism and crop nutrition improvement. Using precise gene editing technology to modify only a small number of nucleotide sites, they successfully cultivated rice varieties rich in coenzyme Q10, achieving targeted upgrades in crop nutritional attributes and opening up a new path for the development of functional food raw materials.

points out that China's pesticide industry is large but not strong, with insufficient originality as the core bottleneck. His team conducted structural analysis around multiple key drug targets, screening a series of high-activity, low-toxicity green pesticide lead compounds, and discovered novel biological control mechanisms, promoting China's pesticide industry to shift from imitation tracking to original innovation.

systematically reviews the development pattern and growth potential of China's peanut industry. Peanuts are the most economically profitable oil crop in China, with significant advantages in yield and oil production efficiency. There is still broad potential for future yield growth in regions such as Huang-Huai-Hai, Northeast China, and Xinjiang. Regarding Yunnan's peanut industry, he suggested positioning itself in the high-end edible peanut sector, accelerating the promotion of high-oleic acid varieties and the development of specialty varieties, and continuously enhancing industrial added value.

interprets the technological pathways and practical scenarios for AI empowering the entire food processing chain. His team has overcome challenges in digitalization and standardization of Chinese cuisine, developing a series of technologies and equipment such as intelligent stir-frying, intelligent grilling, and intelligent flavor detection, achieving precise control and quality traceability throughout the entire food production process, and promoting the upgrade of traditional food processing to intelligent manufacturing.

introduced sorghum's salt-alkali tolerance and high biomass characteristics. Through genetic improvement, his team developed low-stem, lodging-resistant, and soft-leaf forage sorghum varieties, as well as low-toxicity brewing-specific sorghum varieties, which can efficiently utilize saline-alkali land and other marginal land, supporting the high-quality development of herbivorous animal husbandry and the baijiu industry.

Tengchong Scientist Forum special events have been held multiple times in Honghe, forging a deep cooperative relationship and jointly witnessing the solid results of technological innovation empowering local industrial upgrading.

This event is richer in content, clearer in cooperation direction, and more precise in alignment goals, divided into features three parallel events: a seminar on pharmaceutical biomanufacturing, food and health industry development, and superhard materials, a roadshow and cooperation exchange for scientific and technological achievement transformation, a "Scientists Enter Campus" public science popularization event, and a display of scientific achievements. These activities connect research, industry, finance, and popular science across multiple dimensions, building consensus through exchange and solving problems through collaboration.