According to the Zhitong Finance App, Guangji Pharmaceutical (000952.SZ) announced that the company recently signed the “Hubei Guangji Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. - Jiangnan University Strategic Cooperation Agreement on Establishing a Joint Innovation Laboratory” with Jiangnan University. The two parties plan to jointly establish the “Hubei Guangji Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. - Jiangnan University Joint Innovation Laboratory” to specialize in research on key technologies for green manufacturing and biosynthesis of functional polysaccharides and functional proteins (such as breast milk oligosaccharides, etc.).

According to reports, Jiangnan University is directly under the Ministry of Education, a national “211 project” focused on building universities and first-class disciplines. It currently has a number of national scientific research platforms, such as the National Key Laboratory for Food Science and Resource Mining, the National Functional Food Engineering Technology Research Center, and the National Engineering Research Center for Food Fermentation and Food Bio-Manufacturing. There are a large number of highly qualified experts and scholars in the field of food biofermentation.

The announcement said that this cooperation will help the two sides make full use of their respective resources and advantages, establish a long-term, stable and close strategic partnership, and carry out in-depth cooperation arrangements in the key technology fields of green manufacturing and biosynthesis of functional polysaccharides and functional proteins, which is in line with the company's long-term development strategy and is of positive significance for the company to improve its own business layout.