[New Track Xintiandi] Small algae breed big biological industry

2022-11-10 17:37:06

Original source：http://www.ddcpc.cn/detail/d_jingji/11515116029847.html

[Editor's note]

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to open up new fields and tracks for development, and continuously shape new driving forces and advantages for development.

Hot practice, vivid annotation. Only by opening up new "new fields and tracks" where others have their own strengths and weaknesses, can we cultivate and strengthen "new driving forces" with new technologies, industries, formats, and models, and form "new advantages" for development.

Aiming at the "new track" and being good at it, it is possible for more strategic emerging industries to radiate new momentum and break new ground.

From the sky to the deep sea, blockchain brings new opportunities and digital twins foresee a better future... Focusing on optimizing industrial layout, strengthening technological support, and expanding application scenarios, traditional and emerging enterprises in our province have boldly innovated and practiced, focusing on the development of digital economy and new industries such as 5G, IoT intelligent manufacturing, green dual carbon, new energy and new materials, forging new advantages for future development. From today on, the "Tianyan News" client economic channel launched a series of reports on "New Track Xintiandi", focusing on the new track and new play methods, and getting a glimpse of the new trends of Guizhou's industrial development.

On November 4th, the reporter walked into the Rainy Red Chlorella Cultivation Laboratory of Guizhou Zhongming Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Guizhou Zhongming). The neatly arranged circular flasks were filled with liquid in the form of light green fruit juice. Several researchers held beakers and droppers in their hands and focused on experimental research.

In October of this year, we built the world's first physical light guiding technology Microalgae mixed light industrial aquaculture core laboratory in Nanming District. Guizhou Zhongming's 100 ton rain red algae production line will start trial production at the end of the year and is expected to become the world's largest rain red algae monomer production base, "said Zhao Quanqing, the administrative and personnel director of Guizhou Zhongming.

As a high-tech biotechnology company, Guizhou Zhongming focuses on the industrial cultivation of microalgae and the commercial application of microalgae special nutrients in the fields of medicine, food, health, and consumption. It settled in Nanming District, Guiyang City in November last year.

Rainy red algae is a single celled microalgae and one of the organisms with the highest natural Astaxanthin content. Natural astaxanthin is known as a "super oxidant" with rich nutritional and medicinal value, and has great potential for application in fields such as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and nutritional supplements.

The growth of Haematococcus pluvialis requires extremely strict growth environments such as light energy, temperature, and foreign microbial communities. Under agricultural production conditions, astaxanthin production is very low, which seriously restricts the development of downstream industrial chains represented by algal derived astaxanthin, "said Zhao Quanqing.

Guizhou Zhongming is based on the world's first fully enclosed industrial Microalgae aquaculture system that combines artificial light and sunlight. It maximizes the stability of the most uncertain external conditions in microalgae industrial production, providing specific growth environments for microalgae at different stages of growth, thus achieving industrial production of microalgae.

Not only that, industrialized cultivation of rain grown red algae can also utilize the photosynthesis of microalgae to achieve carbon sequestration, combined with industrial waste gas treatment, which can contribute to industrial carbon reduction and help achieve the "dual carbon" goal.

The astaxanthin extracted directly from Haematococcus pluvialis has a fishy odor and low absorption efficiency. We have developed a biological targeted enrichment and biotransformation technology. Simply put, we feed chickens a mixed feed of Haematococcus pluvialis, so that the natural astaxanthin in the algae will be concentrated in the chicken's body, and enriched in the egg yolk by improving the ester metabolism and reproductive system activity of laying hens, "said Zhao Quanqing.

This type of egg can not only be consumed directly, but also undergo further processing of the yolk to extract lecithin with high astaxanthin content, which coats the intermediate of Astaxanthin Egg Butter, solving the problems of difficulty in extracting astaxanthin, easy oxidation, difficult storage, and single downstream application products in the past.

In order to achieve a full industry chain development model, Guizhou Zhongming has also taken its own steps in the development of downstream products of astaxanthin.

We not only provide raw materials for astaxanthin, but also develop and produce a full range of downstream application products for astaxanthin, such as special diets, cosmetics, healthcare, biomedicine and other related products. Zhao Quanqing stated that Guizhou Zhongming will focus on the research and development and manufacturing of high value-added natural Astaxanthin products, and form a modern biological enterprise in the entire industry chain by extending to product manufacturing and market brand promotion.

Planning, Economic News Department

Article/Guizhou Daily Tianyan News reporter, Zhu Dengfang

Video/Intern, Chen Bingni

Editor, Zeng Shuai

Second instance, Zhang Hengxin

Third instance, Sun Xiaorong