Accelerate promotion of green bio-manufacturing to help achieve carbon neutrality

From the perspectives of the new global technological revolution and industrial transformation, the transition of China's chemical industry production mode, the realization of carbon neutrality, and the agricultural industrialization, this work expounded the meaning and significance of green bio-manufacturing, and analyzed China's bio-manufacturing industry status and its strategic demand. It was pointed out that although it bears a late start, bio-manufacturing had been fast developing in the past years, and achieved considerable progress on fermentation, biobased products and bioenergy, forming a solid framework for future development. At the same time, shortcomings such as lack of key and core technologies, and forward-looking technologies, behindhand R& D of key and core equipment, low marketization, and insufficient competitiveness, were emerging. Hence, related proposition was made on the future development directions and pathway for the industry, including the promotion of diversification of raw materials, and establishment of an advanced biological manufacturing technology system. The article pointed out that it was of great strategic significance for China's taking a new path of industrialization, and its economy and society's renewable development, to speed up breakthroughs in technology and equipment from genomes to industrial synthesis, to support the green production of key products such as bio-based chemicals, bio-based materials, and bioenergy, and to promote agricultural industrialization, industrial greenization, and industrial internationalization through bio-manufacturing. © 2021, Chemical Industry Press Co., Ltd. All right reserved.