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Brief Introduction

 

The History

Research Institute of Non-timber Forestry,Chinese Academy of Forestry (RINF) is the former Paulownia R&D Center,National Forestry and Grassland Administration. It was original formed in 1984 by sanction of the former National Committee of Science and Technology and was directly administered by the former National Forestry Department. It was put under centralized management by Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF) in 1992. To broaden its research scope, Non-timber Forest Research and Development Center of CAF was approved to be an additional name by National Forestry Administration in 1998. It was officially renamed as"Research Institute of Non-timber Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry" in In November 2021.

Research Scope

Focusing on major national strategic needs and facing the battlefield of forest owners, RINF is committed to studying and solving major basic, directional, and key scientific and technological problems of Non-timber Forest industry in China, so as to provide scientific and technological support for the improvement, efficiency and rapid development of Non-timber Forest industry. Research tasks and areas in RINF include:

1) Organizing the collection, preservation, evaluation, enhancement, and utilization of Non-timber Forest germplasm resources;

2) Breeding the improved varieties and researching the high-efficiency and accurate cultivation techniques;

3) Organizing and carrying out research on Key Technologies of Non-timber Forest industry upgrading;

4) Establishing and managing the scientific research, achievement incubation and transformation platform, such as long-term scientific research base, key laboratory, engineering research center, and innovation alliance;

5) Organizing the transformation, promotion, popularization, and consulting of scientific and technological achievements in Non-timber Forest;

6) Organizing international exchanges, cooperation, and training in Non-timber Forest;

7) Undertaking the training of high-quality researchers of Non-timber Forest in China.


Facility

1)Key Laboratory

A safe and perfect scientific research and experimental platform has been built. Laboratories in RINF has well equipped with more than 320 sets of scientific instrument and equipment with a total value of more than 40 million yuan till 2018, which covered seven functional experimental areas such as spectrum, chromatography, soil analysis, tissue culture, molecular biology, genetic transformation and plant physiology. There are other three large independent laboratories equipped with scanning electron microscope, confocal microscope and bioinformatics analysis system.

2)Scientific Research Base

RINF has built two long-term experimental bases including a 1000 mu base in Yuanyang City and a 1200 mu base in Mengzhou City. At present, there are more than 5000 germplasm resources of Non-timber Forest tree species andPaulowniaspp. preserved and more than 100 scientific research projects having been and being conducted in the two bases.

3)Other Research Platform

Include two engineering technology centers "Eucommia Engineering Research Center of State Forestry and Grassland" and "Kernel-using apricot Engineering Research Center of State Forestry and Grassland", as well as two National Innovation Alliances, "National Innovation Alliance of Persimmon Industry" and "National Innovation Alliance of Paulownia".



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