Bohn turned around: standing at the commanding heights of environmental protection and food safety

Chongqing, a municipality directly under the central government, has earned enough attention because of its leading GDP growth rate for several consecutive years.

Born in the year of Chongqing's direct administration, Born Technology has the same development track as the city. In the past, it gained a return on investment of 800 times due to investment in the pigs. It became famous in the TMT field.

Today, this well-known angel investment company in Chongqing decided to turn around and the layout is brewing for the next time, and it is actively deployed in the environmental protection and food safety industries. Because its helm, Xiong Xinxiang, firmly believes that the virtual economy has already done too much, and value investment needs to return to the real economy.

At present, its “Lazy Bear Kangkang” project is involved in the fields of air, water, soil, bio-pesticide, bio-fertilizer, bio-medicine, new materials, packaging security, etc., and is strongly advocated and promoted by the United Nations Development Programme, UNEP and UNOPS. The concept is highly consistent.

In fact, under the concept of Xiong Xinxiang's “only in the industry first”, Bohn has occupied a commanding height in the field of environmental protection and food safety, and invested in the research and development of Chongqing Ju Lixin Biological Engineering Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Ju Lixin”). The production of environmentally-friendly and high-efficiency fungi living insecticides, the chafer, and the Metarhizium aeruginosa series have already achieved mass production capacity. At the same time, the plant fiber adhesives developed by the research team of the mechanics of Chongqing Jiaotong University, Yi Zhijian, have been tested in the desert of Inner Mongolia. It has also been confirmed that "the desert can turn into a good field"

Now, Born only needs to "wait for the wind."

The wind is coming.

Bohn turned

In 20 years, Bonn Technology, a well-known angel investment company in Chongqing, is at a special time node.

In the past 20 years, from Qihoo 360, Pig Bajie, to Taodao, and easy to pay, and then to create an easy day to invest, invest in more than 100 projects, the failure rate is only 4%. In the investment community, Born Technology has clearly created a miracle.

But Bohn is not willing to stop here.

In 2014, Bonn’s helm, Xiong Xinxiang, began to target the green industry and implemented a new strategy of investing as the “main body” and transforming Internet financial services and green technology achievements (ie, the lazy bear Kangkang project) into “two wings”, among which the lazy bear Kangkang project Mainly refers to the field of environmental protection and food safety.

The above-mentioned transformation strategy Xiong Xinxiang has repeatedly stated in public.

The Lazy Bear Kangkang project is involved in the fields of air, water, soil, biological pesticides, biological fertilizers, biomedicine, new materials, packaging safety, etc. In the future, the diatom concentrate sewage treatment process, BGA soil improvement, negative oxygen ion generation technology, organic The comprehensive agricultural comprehensive prevention and control technology and new materials will be integrated into the lazy bear industrial parks of the countries and regions along the “Belt and Road” with the help of the Hong Kong-ASEAN “One Belt and One Road” fund and the partners' partners to maximize the integration of resources.

What is of public concern is why Born Technology, which has a strong voice in TMT investment, turns to environmental protection and food safety.

"The TMT industry is now at a high risk, and the competition is relatively fierce. The winners are all eaten and basically monopolized by BAT. In the past few years, an idea in the TMT industry can be financed. The investment threshold of seeds and angels is chased high." In his office, he told the author that the valuation of this industry has returned to normal, and the excess excess income and premium space have been greatly reduced.

Xiong Xinxiang believes that the Internet, the mobile Internet has become the norm, the virtual economy is surplus, and it needs to return to the real economy.

In May 2016, Born established five subsidiaries in Hong Kong and launched a strategy to promote a large health industry in countries along the Belt and Road. This time, Born played more than just a traditional investor role.

In fact, Born's entry into the environmental and food safety fields stems from an accident. “Why is it difficult for modern people to have the basic requirements of children? Is this not an environmental and food problem?” Xiong Xinxiang said that the essence of business is to meet people’s needs. Today is an era of oversupply, environmental protection and food safety. Will become just needed.

Environmental strategy - the desert becomes a good field

For the important fulcrum of the environmental protection strategy, Born placed the first stop on the land on which we depend.

According to public information, China's per capita arable land area is small, and the overall quality of cultivated land is not high. It has become a basic national condition. The National Land Planning Outline (2016~2030), which was released earlier this year, has determined that the amount of cultivated land in China should be maintained by 2030. The red line of arable land of more than 18.25 billion mu has become an important proposition on how to “add addition” on the basis of existing cultivated land.

Born Technology believes that desertified land can be used as the direction of force. The important support behind this decision is that it has found the key code to turn the desert into a good land.

It is understood that China's desertified land area is 2.622 million square kilometers, accounting for 27.4% of the country's land area, of which wind erosion and desertification land area is 1.607 million square kilometers. Since the 1970s, only the land desertification area has expanded at an annual rate of 2,460 square kilometers.

The figures are shocking, and the issue of desertification governance is of national concern, but in the eyes of Born, there is a huge industry behind this problem.

Yi Zhijian, a professor of mechanics at Chongqing Jiaotong University, first discovered and defined the existence of a universal constraint between soil particles. It is this kind of constraint that allows the soil to exert a gentle force to “catch” plant roots, maintain plant stability, and maintain water and water. Fat and breathable.

Compared with soil, sand particles do not have such a constraint. After four years of experimentation, Yi Zhijian's research team developed an environmentally-friendly and universally introduced universal restraint method, which adds a vegetable fiber binder to the sand. This technology can realize the reverse process of soil desertification and is expected to “desert the desert”. Soilification has become an ideal carrier for plant growth.

It is worth noting that Bonn Technology has reached an investment partnership with Yi Zhijian's research team. Since last year, it has applied the “desert soilification” ecological restoration technology to the 25-mu test site of Ulan Buh and Desert in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia.

“The sand body after construction was fixed immediately and showed long-lasting wind erosion resistance. More than 70 kinds of plants such as corn, wheat, hazelnuts, melons, vegetables, sunflowers, ornamental grasses, and arbor shrubs were planted in the experimental area. Flowering results, even the surrounding foxes, lynxes, wild cats, frogs, birds and many insects have settled in this desert oasis." Xiong Xinxiang said.

According to experts' estimates, compared with the local soil planting, the experimental planting of the crops is equivalent to the amount of watering, the amount of fertilizer is less, the crop yield is higher, and the algae crust grows on the surface of the sand for several months. It took about 10 years for the skin to be formed under local climatic conditions.

It is worth mentioning that this creative technology implementation cost is not high. According to reports, the cost of large-scale reconstruction is about 1,500 yuan to 2,700 yuan per mu. It is operated by rotary tiller. The single-day construction area can reach 30 mu. After one transformation, it can be cultivated continuously, and the subsequent planting also improves the soil quality. effect.

This innovative technology has received a lot of praise in the scientific community. Zhong Zhihua, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said after field visits that the use of mechanical principles to achieve the reversal of sand-to-soil performance has not yet been publicly reported in the international arena. This technology is expected to become the fundamental means of desert-changing oasis.

It is interesting to note that in protecting the cultivated land, which is related to the welfare of the country and the people, Born is not only fighting desertified land.

For example, in response to heavy metal pollution in the soil, Born has teamed up with the Hefei Institute of Material Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to prepare anhydrous sodium carbonate composite (ASC), attapulgite (ATP) and straw biochar without pollution to the environment and soil. Special nanomaterials, repairing soil pH to control the migration of heavy metal ions, effectively reducing crop enrichment of heavy metals. The technical achievements have been the ACS, the core journal of the American Chemical Society's green chemistry field, and belong to the original technology of international advanced technology.

For example, in the transformation of saline-alkali land, Bohn has invested in Beijing Green Angel Soil Conditioning Agent, which can provide a perfect and harmonious rhizosphere environment for plants, especially plants in adversity. It is also the first internationally used soil energy spectrum. The practice of improving soil and vegetative plants.

In addition, Born has also invested in a "black technology" that "calls the wind and rain", by controlling the concentration and quality of ions in the air, changing the energy released into the atmosphere, thereby regulating the temperature and accelerating or slowing the process of rain, hitting "fog"霾" the crux.

Food Safety Strategy - Investment in the Whole Industry Chain

For another important pivot, Born adopted the “full industry chain” investment law.

It is understood that the company's investment in Ju Lixin is a high-tech bio-pesticide enterprise integrating R&D, production and sales. Its core technology founder, Dr. Xia Yuxian, is a second-level professor at Chongqing University, and the State Council special allowance expert, education. The winners of the "New Century Excellent Talents" have presided over a number of national "863" projects, national major basic research preliminary research projects, and national "863 high-tech industrialization" projects, and their leading "the key technologies for the commonality of insecticidal fungi pesticides" And product development" won the first prize of the 2009 Chongqing Technology Invention.

“The rice cultivar 'Tao Youfang' series products developed by Ju Lixin is a micro-toxic biological pesticide with an active ingredient of 8 billion spores/ml of Metarhizium anisopliae CQMa421, which is suitable for the prevention and control of rice in the whole reproductive cycle. Rice leaf roller, rice planthopper, rice blast, and rice mites have good control effects and are not affected by their resistance." Xiong Xinxiang said.

"High-toxic pesticides are slowly withdrawing from the market. The gradual popularization of micro-toxic bio-pesticides is a general trend. In the future, the market value of this industry will reach more than 20 billion yuan," said a pesticide industry observer.

It is worth noting that the Metarhizium anisopliae CQMa421 oil suspension and wettable powder have completed the field trial of the Ministry of Agriculture and obtained a new pesticide license and production license. At present, Bohn has planned an industrial park covering an area of ​​about 40 mu in Fuling, Chongqing. The designed production capacity is 1300 tons of original drug and 4,000 tons of preparation. It has been completed and put into production. It is estimated that the annual sales of fungal biological pesticides will reach 100 tons, and the output value will reach 40 million yuan.

"Danish Novozymes, Germany Bayer and other multinational companies are contacting us. In the future, we will also expand production capacity and expand the international market through cooperation." Xiong Xinxiang said.

In fact, in addition to Juxin bio-pesticide, Bonn Technology has also invested in Jiangxi Tianren Ecology. The company has the largest domestic microbial pesticide production line with an annual output of 1400 tons of parent drug and 4,000 tons of preparations, and its biological pesticides and worms. The porphyrin product has been designated as the recommended drug by the national forestry agency, and the market covers 1,900 counties and cities in 2,000 counties and cities nationwide.

In addition, Born Technology is also involved in the comprehensive prevention and control involved in the cultivation of crops. According to public information, China's organic food market has a market space of 50 billion yuan, but the proportion of organic production area in the country's agricultural arable land is only 0.95%, far lower than the proportion of 5% to 10% in most European countries. In the next 10 years, China's organic food production will maintain an average annual growth rate of 30% to 50%.

It is understood that Born has invested in the world's largest comprehensive organic agriculture comprehensive prevention and control technology program provider Shanghai Xingmu, providing comprehensive plant protection programs in the sowing period, germination stage, middle growth stage, late growth stage, maturity stage and clearing stage.

In the food inspection and food traceability links downstream of the industrial chain, Born Technology has invested in two companies, Guizhou Qinbang and Beijing New World. The former has a complete R&D platform and product production line for agricultural and veterinary drug residues, mycotoxins and illegal additives. The whole industry chain of “from farmland to table”; the latter is the only liberation solution provider in China that is committed to achieving closed-loop traceability from planting, breeding to table. It has established a world-leading traceability software system, traceable electronic scale, PDA Independent intellectual property system such as readers.

Xiong Xinxiang said that in the next 15 to 20 years, opportunities in environmental protection and food safety will be difficult to estimate.

The wind is getting bigger and bigger. Bohn, standing on the commanding heights, "waits for the wind." Text / Mei Yujie