Efforts have been made to establish platforms aimed at boosting innovation and entrepreneurship. The local government has released a batch of 16 preferential policies to help the complex build major platforms in six areas, such as technological support, talent cultivation, e-commerce logistics and financial support.

To date, the complex has welcomed 21 industrial projects with an overall investment of 1.69 billion yuan, including the Andros fruit processing project.

"The complex has played a vital role in integrating resources from both urban and rural areas and has helped bring consumers and producers together, promoting the development of rural revitalization," said Shao Changwen, the person in charge of Shandong Xiyu Biotechnology, which is located in the complex.

The company works in areas such as the R&D of agricultural biotechnologies, bacterium fertilizer and the plantation of agricultural products. "The company is estimated to have annual profits of around 200,000 yuan," said Shao.

Shao is also a professor in genetics and molecular biology at Linyi University. He noted that laboratory work cannot by itself solve the real-life problems occurring in agricultural production, but with the help of Zhujialin as a field research base, his scientific research outcomes can be put into practice.