Recently, the People's Government of Tianjin issued the decision on the 2025 Tianjin Science and Technology Awards, rewarding scientific and technical personnel and organizations that have made outstanding contributions to the city's scientific and technological progress and economic and social development. The project "Research on Biotransformation of Functional Sugars and Construction & Application of Key Enzyme Strains" led by Professor Liu Fufeng, a member of the Applied Microbiology Faculty Party Branch, won the Second Prize of Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Award. This honor is not only the crystallization of years of dedicated research by the scientific research team, but also a vivid portrayal of the Applied Microbiology Faculty Party Branch's in-depth study and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and its adherence to leading high-level scientific and technological innovation with high-quality Party building. It is also a landmark achievement in solidly promoting the "Strengthen the Country Tour" special action for Party branch secretaries of university faculty who are "dual leaders" (political and professional leaders), and serving the high-quality development of regional economy and society.

The Applied Microbiology Faculty Party Branch always puts political construction in the first place, and strives to build a "Four-Strong" Party branch with strong political functions, strong branch committees, strong Party member teams and strong role performance. The branch actively responds to the "Strengthen the Country Tour" special action. By setting up "Party Member Pioneer Posts" and forming "Scientific Research Breakthrough Assault Teams", it continuously transforms the political and organizational advantages of the Party organization into winning advantages for overcoming scientific research difficulties, ensuring that wherever major scientific research tasks are advanced, Party building work follows up, and the vanguard and exemplary role is brought into play. The branch guides Party members to show their identities, act as pioneers and set examples on the front line of teaching and scientific research, transforms the potential energy of Party building into strong driving force for scientific research breakthroughs, keeps the "country's most important matters" in mind, focuses on the needs of bio-manufacturing and health industries, and strives to promote the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements.

Professor Liu Fufeng, a backbone Party member of the branch, is a typical practitioner of this mechanism. He actively faces the major national strategic needs and the main battlefield of economic and social development, deeply grasps the connotation requirements of the "grand view of science and technology" and "grand view of talents", and closely connects his personal research direction with the pain points of industrial development. Leading his team, he achieved disruptive breakthroughs in bio-substrate transformation through interdisciplinary innovation of synthetic biology and intelligent catalysis, and built a whole-chain system of "enzyme resource mining - synergistic catalysis - industrial application". This achievement strongly supports the strategic needs of the national bio-manufacturing and health industries, contributes "branch strength" to accelerating the cultivation of new quality productive forces and serving high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology, and fully demonstrates the vanguard and exemplary role of Party members on the frontier of scientific and technological innovation.

This award is an important test of the effectiveness of the in-depth integration of Party building and business in the Applied Microbiology Faculty Party Branch. Looking ahead, the branch will continue to strengthen political leadership, further deepen the "Strengthen the Country Tour" special action, stimulate the innovation vitality and fighting spirit of faculty and student Party members, gather more scientific research forces to engage in scientific and technological breakthroughs, serve major national strategic needs with higher-level scientific and technological achievements, contribute grassroots wisdom to accelerating the construction of a strong country in education, science and technology, and talent, and demonstrate the mission and responsibility of the primary-level Party branch of colleges and universities in the new era in the process of promoting Tianjin's high-quality development and fully building a socialist modernized metropolis.