Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone is an important functional area of Binhai New Area, with remarkable advantages in economic development, technological innovation and opening up. Relying on two national strategic support platforms, respectively Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology of Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Synthetic Biotechnology Innovation Center, the Zone has unique advantages in developing the biological manufacturing industry. In December 2019, the construction of National Synthetic Biotechnology Innovation Center was commenced in the Zone, and this center will be built to a national science and technology platform integrating comprehensiveness, openness, and advancement, and provide source technology supply for the development of synthetic biology related industries. Over the years, the Free Trade Zone has always been committed to promoting technological innovation and industrialization, and has built three specialized biomedical incubation platforms including Ringpu Smart Valley, Chinese Academy of Sciences Incubation Center and Zhongke T&B Zhigu Park. It has gathered more than 100 biomedical companies represented by Ringpu Biology, GreenPine Pharmaceutical, GE Healthcare, Irene Medical, Huahong Technology, Kedun Electronics, BGI, and Vcanbio, involving the three major sectors of biopharmaceutical, medical device and gene testing. In the first three quarters of this year, the biological manufacturing industry in the Free Trade Zone had a growth in despite of the adverse environmental conditions, with an output value growth rate of more than 44%.

　　In order to further accelerate the development of the biological manufacturing industry, the Free Trade Zone has planned a biological manufacturing industrial park with an area of 8 square kilometers. The park will integrate functions such as research and development, pilot testing, production, and display services, rely on the research findings of Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology of Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Synthetic Biotechnology Innovation Center, and mainly develop seven major industries including micro-ecology, new proteins, controllable degradable bio-based materials, functional sugars, clinical medical food, biomedicine and pet health food. In combination with the characteristics of the biological manufacturing industry, the Zone has also issued a special support policy for the biological manufacturing industry to give key support in the aspects of industrialization of biological manufacturing, biological manufacturing R&D innovation, introduction of biological manufacturing talents, and so on.