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On February 24th, Lu Qingguo (first from left) communicated with researchers to understand the development of new products. Photographed by Li Weiguo, Correspondent of Hebei Daily

Dealing directly with downstream customers has enabled me to identify the intersection of market demand and scientific research. Young technology workers not only need to stay in the laboratory, but also need to go out and understand the market in order to improve the conversion rate of scientific and technological achievements

On the morning of February 24th, in the conference room of the R&D Center of Quzhou County Chenguang Biotechnology Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Chenguang Biotechnology"), Lu Qingguo, a representative of the National People's Congress and Chairman of Chenguang Biotechnology, was communicating with more than 10 young scientific and technological workers of the company on the topic of deepening scientific and technological innovation. By understanding the feelings and expectations of young scientific and technological workers, relevant suggestions were further improved.

As an enterprise located in a plain agricultural county, although it does not have the superior living environment of a large city, Morning Light Biology has attracted 8 doctoral and more than 100 master's degrees to work, with over half of the company's employees holding bachelor's degrees or above. In recent years, the company has received a total of 48 national and provincial level scientific and technological achievements awards, including the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and 332 national patented technologies. It has participated in the formulation and revision of 64 international, national, industry, and group standards. As a leading enterprise in the world's natural pigment industry and an important supplier of natural plant extracts, its production and sales of chili red pigment, chili oleoresin, and lutein have consistently ranked first in the world for many years. In 2022, the company achieved an output value of over 6 billion yuan, an increase of over 25% year-on-year.

Lu Qingguo has been elected as a representative of the National People's Congress for three consecutive terms. He believes that this is not only a noble honor, but also a heavy responsibility. As the head of a high-tech enterprise, technological innovation has been his focus for many years.

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposes that 'we must adhere to the principle that technology is the first productive force, talent is the first resource, and innovation is the first driving force', 'strengthen the deep integration of industry, academia, and research led by enterprises, strengthen goal orientation, and improve the level of scientific and technological achievements transformation and industrialization'. This points out the direction for enterprise development. 'Lu Qingguo said,' We must adhere to the deep integration of industry, academia, and research, so that Chenguang Biology can continuously achieve new results on the path of scientific and technological innovation. '. Not long ago, the company's application for the "Innovation and Industrialization of Key Technologies for Green and Efficient Processing of Stevia" project was awarded the first prize of the 2022 Science and Technology Progress Award by the China Light Industry Federation.

"This achievement has broad market prospects." Lian Yunhe, deputy general manager of Chenguang Biology, introduced that stevioside extracted from stevia rebaudiana is a natural healthy sweetener with high sweetness and low calories. Its sweetness is 300 times that of sucrose, but its calories are only 1/300 of sucrose. It is an ideal source of sugar for diabetes patients and obese people.

How can enterprises, as the main body of technological innovation, gather strength to carry out original and leading technological breakthroughs? Lu Qingguo introduced that after becoming a leader in the global natural pigment industry, Chenguang Bio has hit the "ceiling" of the industry. In recent years, they have fully utilized their research and development advantages, focusing on scientific research from "0" to "1". On the basis of strengthening primary processed products such as pigments, they have actively entered high value-added fields such as health products and traditional Chinese medicine preparations.

The policy of adding and deducting research and development expenses is an important means to stimulate technological innovation in enterprises. Through visits and research, Lu Qingguo learned that this policy has played a positive role in promoting enterprises to increase research and development investment and accelerate product upgrading. However, compared with developed countries, there is still a certain gap in policy strength, Suggest relevant national departments to increase support for enterprise research and development investment, further reduce enterprise innovation costs, stimulate enterprise innovation motivation, create a strong atmosphere of active innovation, and promote industry quality and efficiency improvement

Reporter's Notes

More than 100 doctoral and master's talents work with peace of mind in the company, which is the most solid support and strongest confidence for the development of Chenguang Biology.

Helping science and technology workers solve their children's life problems such as school enrollment, and understanding their understanding and feelings about technological innovation... Lu Qingguo said that many of the suggestions he is preparing to submit come from his regular communication and exchange with science and technology workers.

As the head of a high-tech enterprise, Lu Qingguo is well aware of the uncertainty of exploring unknown fields. To achieve innovative development, enterprises need to not only "bite the green mountain without relaxation", maintain composure, but also combine long-term, medium and short-term goals to survive and then seek long-term development. In his visits and research to other companies, he actively shared the experience of Chenguang Biology's continuous leadership, and also incorporated the expectations of many business leaders into his suggestions, striving to make the suggestions more practical and targeted at the grassroots level. (Hebei Daily reporter Liu Jianying, correspondent Ding Shaoyi)