The R&D center, which was founded in 1999, is supported by experts and professors from Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and many other high education institutions, with doctoral students and graduate students as the backbone, the center has strong technical force, advanced equipments, and complete sets of production equipments for the biological and chemical industry from small test, middle test to industrial production. The R&D center has been committed to the technical development and research of non-grain ethanol, new chemical materials, hydrogen production, and chemical recycling. It has three scientific research platforms: Hebei Provincial Enterprise Technology Center, Provincial Non-grain Ethanol Technology Center, and Provincial Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Base, as well as two innovative talent teams, the Hebei "Giant Plan" innovation and entrepreneurship team and the Tangshan City Cellulose Ethanol Technology Innovation Team.