2024 World Agricultura Innovation Conference -Dietary Fiber Summit were successfully held
On the morning of October 10, the 2024 World AgriFood Innovation Conference (WAFI) Dietary Fiber Summit was held at the Beijing Jinhai Lake International Convention & Exhibition Center. The conference was hosted by the MBA Education Center of China Agricultural University and the Chinese Society of Bioengineering, and co-hosted by Tailijie Biotech Co., Ltd. Experts, scholars and business leaders from home and abroad gathered together for a wonderful collision of ideas and wisdom.
This conference aims to build a high-end dialogue platform to promote in-depth exchanges and cooperation among domestic and foreign experts, scholars and business leaders. It is hoped that through the collision of ideas and the integration of wisdom, innovative thinking will be stimulated, new ideas and new solutions will be provided, and the high-quality development of the dietary fiber industry will be promoted.
Fu Wenge, professor of China Agricultural University and director of MBA Education Center, first delivered a speech for the conference. Dietary fiber has developed rapidly in China in recent years. We are very grateful to the scientists and entrepreneurs in this industry for their early exploration. Innovation needs to be early. We believe that the Dietary Fiber Summit can contribute to the development of our industry and the health of mankind.
Fu Wenge
Guo Quantai, Chairman of Tailijie Biotech Co., Ltd., said that at this summit, we will conduct in-depth discussions on hot topics such as the latest scientific and technological achievements of dietary fiber, industrial development trends, changes in market demand, and research and development investment priorities. We hope that through the collision of ideas and the exchange of experiences, we can brainstorm and unify our understanding, point out the direction for the development of the industry, and strive to promote the dietary fiber industry to a higher and newer level.
Guo Quantai
The conference is divided into three parts: sharing by experts and scholars, sharing by enterprises and dialogue.
Dr. Simon Heck, Director-General of the International Potato Center (CIP), and Bibi Giyose, Senior Nutrition Officer for Policy and Programmes in the Nutrition and Food Systems Division at FAO, were invited to attend the conference. Dr. Simon Heck delivered a wonderful keynote speech on “Improving Food Systems and Increasing Dietary Fiber with Root and Tuber Crops”, and explored in depth the key role of these crops in enhancing global food security and improving human health. In her keynote speech, Bibi Giyose emphasized the importance of fruits, vegetables and pulses to improve the intake of dietary fibre, pointing out that these foods are essential to improving public health and preventing diseases.
Simon Heck
Bibi Giyose
Zhao Liping, Chair Professor at Rutgers University, Distinguished Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, American Academy of Microbiology Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Studies CIFAR Fellow, presented his latest research results, “Foundation Guild of Gut Microbiome: A New Target for Nutritional Improvement of Human Health”. This research result was recently published in the top international journal Cell. At this conference, Professor Zhao Liping also publicly expounded on this research result for the first time.
Zhao Liping
Du Yuguang, Senior researcher at the State Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, deputy director of the National Biochemical Engineering Technology Research Center (Beijing) and deputy secretary-general in the Chinese Society of Biotechnology, and chair of the Glyco-Bioengineering Professional Committee and foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
Du Yuguang
Gao Yanxiang, professor of College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, director of Key Lab of Healthy Beverages and chief supervisor of China Food Additives and Ingredients Association;Xie Xinhua, vice dean of the College of Food Science and Technology, Henan Agricultural University;Dr. Wu Yi, a young researcher at the College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, and other experts and scholars brought the latest research results on dietary fiber.
Gao Yanxiang
Xie Xinhua
Wu Yi
The entrepreneurs gave wonderful explanations on the development of the dietary fiber market, the application of dietary fiber in food industry production, and how companies can upgrade their products in the face of changes in public demand today.
Gao Peng: Chairman of Shanghai Letikong Health Technology Co., Ltd.
Zhu Lixiong, Chairman of Shanghai Vita Biotechnology Co., Ltd.
Peng Da: General Manager of Hubei Tianjinghu Agricultural Science and Technology Service Co., Ltd.
Roundtable Dialogue
As one of the earliest companies producing dietary fiber in China, Guo Fangjie, general manager of Tailijie Biotechnology Co., Ltd., said that Tailijie has been developing for nearly 30 years and has witnessed 30 years of development of China's dietary fiber industry.
Guo Fangjie
As the aging trend continues, people's health awareness increases, and the demand for reducing and controlling sugar increases, eating habits will inevitably shift towards consuming more foods rich in dietary fiber, and the consumer demand for dietary fiber is also continuing to rise.
As a productive enterprise, we will invest more manpower, material resources and financial resources into product research and development and production, strive to produce more and better products, help solve the public's intestinal problems, and make our due contribution to the health of more people.
As a productive enterprise, we will invest more manpower, material resources and financial resources into product research and development and production, strive to produce more and better products, help solve the public's intestinal problems, and make our due contribution to the health of more people.
