The provincial Science and Technology Chief Engineer Exchange Salon (Science and Technology Fair), themed on deep processing of agricultural products, was held at Northeast Agricultural University on the 7th. Vice Governor Cong Li attended the event.

The province continues to deepen its campaign to industrialize scientific and technological achievements, dispatching more than a thousand science and technology chief engineers to work on the front lines of enterprises and establishing a mechanism in which enterprises pose the questions and research institutions solve them.

During the experience-sharing session, four representatives from universities, prefecture-level cities and enterprises exchanged views from different perspectives on chief engineers' on-site services for enterprises and collaborative transformation practices between industry, academia and research. They put forward countermeasures and suggestions on precisely matching enterprise technological needs, improving full-chain management and incentives, channeling research resources downward, promoting mature service models, and relying on scientific and technological innovation to extend, supplement and strengthen the industrial chain.

In the keynote report session, two experts held in-depth discussions on tackling bottlenecks in the deep processing of agricultural products, developing high-value-added functional products, commercializing research outcomes, and fostering collaborative innovation across the industrial chain.

During the parallel forums, participants focused on seven major directions including fruits, vegetables, dairy and meat, grains and cereals, food fermentation, and functional foods, discussing topics such as on-site enterprise services, technological breakthroughs, achievement transformation and industry-academia-research collaboration, sorting out bottlenecks and difficulties, and exploring service paths suited to the province's deep processing industry for agricultural products.

As a distinctive platform for the province's campaign year of deepening breakthroughs in the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, the Science and Technology Chief Engineer Exchange Salon (Science and Technology Fair) adheres to a demand-oriented approach and closely addresses industrial pain points. It brings together government, industry, academia, research and enterprise sectors for in-depth engagement, providing practical examples and feasible paths for improving the chief engineer system and opening up channels for transforming achievements in deep processing of agricultural products, and injecting innovative momentum into strengthening billion-yuan industrial clusters such as green food and the bioeconomy, and accelerating the building of a strong agricultural province.