On April 9th, Qi-biodesign and Triumph Haofeng Agricultural Group Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation agreement, with Qi-biodesign's co-founder and CEO Bei Zhang and Triumph Haofeng Group's chairman Tiemin Ma attending the signing ceremony. Both parties will leverage their respective strengths to jointly develop new varieties and categories such as tomatoes and lettuce, and are committed to providing consumers with brand-new products for a better experience.
Qi-biodesign is committed to developing independently controllable new precision gene-editing technologies and creating excellent biological traits and products. The company has built the SEEDIT™ R&D platform, which is efficient, high-throughput, and capable of sustainable learning, possessing core intellectual property rights that are independently controllable and a biotechnology system with global competitiveness. Triumph Haofeng Group is a member enterprise of China National Building Material Group, a central enterprise under the Fortune Global 500, a leading enterprise in the national agricultural industrialization, a national high-tech enterprise, and a provider of rural revitalization solutions that offer modern facility agriculture design, construction, and operation services, brand standards, and asset management.
Both parties have held discussions and seminars on the content of this strategic cooperation, hoping to fully leverage Qi-biodesign's gene-editing technical capabilities to establish a complementary cooperation with Triumph Haofeng Group, and jointly create innovative products such as tomatoes, lettuce, and fresh corn that meet world-class standards, promoting the industrial application and development of gene-editing technology.