Original title: Tan Tianwei, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, responded to the classics: biological manufacturing will bring revolutionary changes to many fields, and future foods such as artificial meat will help solve the problem of food security.
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At the Engineering Science and Technology Innovation Forum held on the 25th, Tan Tianwei, president of Beijing University of Chemical Technology and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, delivered a keynote speech on "Biological Manufacturing changes the Future" at the Forum.
Tan Tianwei mentioned that biological manufacturing takes industrial biotechnology as the core, using enzymes, microbial cells and chemical engineering technology to process target products, including bio-based materials, chemicals and bioenergy. Its products include not only large tonnage transport fuel, medium tonnage chemical materials, but also smaller tonnage food materials, very small fine chemicals, vaccines and so on. In terms of the dimension of economic development, biological manufacturing is the engine that pushes the innovative products of biotechnology to the commercial scale and is the foundation of biological economy.
During the forum, Tan Tianwei was interviewed by a reporter from the Daily Economic News.
Tan Tianwei believes that from the perspective of development trend and importance, the biological economy is expected to bring about the fourth industrial revolution. Asked what factors this judgment was based on, Tan Tianwei told the Daily Economic News that the biological economy is not a specific industry, but a new, cross-industry, biotechnology-related economy. "it is to commercialize the innovative products of biotechnology, the most important of which is biological manufacturing."
Tan Tianwei explained that in the past, we divided industries by products, while bio-manufacturing products span most industries, that is to say, most industries can be involved. "it is a way of manufacturing, that is, it is made from organisms, based on our conventional medicine, food, agriculture, chemistry, materials, environmental protection, metallurgy and so on. This means that it will bring revolutionary changes to most industries."
Tan Tianwei further said, for example, in order to meet the needs of food security in the future, the future food produced through workshops, such as artificial meat, artificial milk and artificial grease, will be able to solve the problems of global arable land, fertilizer and food security. Thousands of square meters of fermentation workshop can replace hundreds of thousands of mu of arable land. For example, raising pigs, we can use the industrialization model to solve the problem in the future, giving birth to new forms of industry, so this will bring about revolutionary changes.
"in addition, the biological economy as a whole potential market (very large), green low carbon brings it a very important opportunity." Tan Tianwei explained that this involves the reshaping of traditional chemicals, energy and materials. At present, raw materials from petrochemical, coal chemical, natural gas and other fossil resources are facing great challenges, and biological manufacturing can reshape a new chemical production mode. Tan Tianwei said that in the process of greening, biological manufacturing can play an extremely important role. In other words, new products, new services and green and low-carbon development may make it important in the fourth industrial revolution in the future.
Referring to the inclusion of bio-manufacturing in the government work report this year, Tan Tianwei told the Daily Business News that bio-manufacturing is a new format that will bring about a reshaping of the industry and create a new track. From this point of view, biological manufacturing is very important to the competition between countries, it is not a traditional industry, but a strategic emerging industry, so the government work report clearly proposes to actively build new growth engines such as biological manufacturing. Whoever grabs the commanding heights in the future will seize the first opportunity.
In addition, when it comes to policy support for biological manufacturing, Tan Tianwei said that biological manufacturing is an important embodiment of new productivity. At present, led by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Science and Technology are jointly formulating a national action plan for biotechnology and biological manufacturing, which is expected to be released in the near future. "Biological manufacturing +" is an important part of it, including biological manufacturing + agriculture, biological manufacturing + chemical fertilizer materials and so on. Biological manufacturing will play a very important role in the manufacturing field in the future. at present, we can see the application of biological manufacturing in various industries, we should be full of confidence.