Brief Introduction of Tianjin
Food Engineering Center

　　 Tianjin Food Engineering Center , approved by Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Commission in January 2004 and established by Tianjin University of Science and Technology, is a unique province-class food engineering center in Tianjin , locating in 13 th avenues of Tianjin Economic Technological Development Area.
　 　 The management mode of the center designed to be an institute-industry enterprise. The institute part belongs to Tianjin University of Science and Technology as a positive school level unit. Further more, the center has a 5000-m 2 pilot scale plant with an investment about ￥ 20, 000,000. The company was established in December 2004 with a register fund of ￥ 21, 000,000.
　 　 Prof. Xuekui-Wang, one of the vice-presidents of Tianjin University of Science and Technology, acts as the center's commission director and president. Prof. Xiaohong-Cao, another vice-president of Tianjin University of Science and Technology, acts as the academic committee director. Prof. Xihong-Li acts as the director and general managers of the center.
　 　 Through one-year work, there are 64 members of the center, in existence, including 5 executive managers, 9 professors, 14 associate professors, 16 engineering technical personnel (Plan to be 50~60 people). Moreover, 5 foreign professors and 8 distinguished domestic professors (or researchers) were appointed by the center.
　 　 The center has 3 brother-enterprises, which are bioengineering & technology, agricultural preservation & process and food machine & chemical engineering equipment respectively, connecting with 43 business enterprises. The center owns 5 research institutes, which are Food Science and Application Technique Research Institute, Biosciences and Engineering Research Institute, Ocean Science and Engineering Research Institute, Food Packing & Printing and Material Research Institute and Food Machine and Chemical Engineering Equipments Research Institute, and 18 research directions focus are as. Moreover, the center will establish 5 modern food engineering platforms in bioengineering, milk products, marine products and meat process, is value added processing of agricultural product, agricultural product logistics and preservation engineering etc.
　 　 The center takes the food engineering technique as the core, serving business enterprises as the aim, moving from data gathering to assimilation of existing knowledge → innovation → process development → demonstration (proof of correct) → scale up to industrialization both domestic and international food engineering of new techniques, new capabilities and new achievement. The center adopts the management mode of "university+ inventor + company", practices the principle of management of "zero distance contact with business enterprises, low risk investments, high point of departure development products, and efficiently conversion achievements", "converge all rivers, attract all elites, combine all business enterprises", becomes a local top-raking level one, and a Chinese food engineering demonstration base being in line with international standard. Consequently, it will become the incubator of Tianjin food business enterprises, the base of scientific research and teachings of Tianjin University of Science and Technology, and the connection hub of international food science and technology.