Beijing National Modern Agricultural City for Science and Technology began construction of the Beijing Tongzhou International Seed Industry Science & technology Park on July 13, 2011.
In the past three years, the park has been recognized by China's Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Agriculture as a state-level agricultural science and technology park, a core base for modern crop industry and a national demonstration base for informatization in agriculture and rural areas. In addition, it has developed into the first featured base for seed technology in Zhongguancun Science Park.
The preliminary planning of the park occupied an area of 3,333 hectares, and the long-term planning set Yujiawu village as its center, covering the townships in Southern Tongzhou. Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission is making great efforts to promote the development of the park. By providing various services such as scientific research, business incubation, transaction and exchanges, as well as public services, the park aims to build a high-end and sustainable industrial chain of modern crop seeds and China's "Silicon Valley" for the seed industry.
So far, the park has become a concentration area for enterprises in the seed industry and scientific research institutes. It has attracted more than 50 well-known enterprises and scientific research institutes from both home and abroad, and the total investment of these enterprises has exceeded three billion yuan ($489 million).
Space breeding demonstration base and China Agricultural University's water-saving agricultural comprehensive demonstration base have been constructed in the park. These bases provide services for platform sharing, and scientific development and demonstration for the enterprises in the Park, and will lay a firm groundwork for the establishment of a modern seed industry that integrates breeding and promotion and for the leapfrog development of the capital's seed industry.
