The school is one of the cradles and supporting units of light industry, food and biotechnology. It has the only national key laboratory of food science and technology, three national and provincial engineering research centers, seven provincial and ministerial key laboratories, the sci-tech novelty retrieval workstation of the Ministry of Education, and an integrated and shared information platform for industrial microbial resource databases.
Since the Tenth Five-Year Plan, the annual research funding of the whole school has exceeded 654.38 billion yuan. National, provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological awards 13 1, including 4 second prizes for national technological inventions and scientific and technological progress, and the number of patent applications and patents granted ranks among the top universities in China.