Tongwei boasts robust R&D and independent innovation strength. It has invested hundreds of millions of yuan to establish seven major R&D and test bases and has more than a dozen national and provincial technological innovation platforms, including "National Enterprise Technology Center," "National Accredited Laboratory," "National Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Aquaculture Animal Disease Prevention and Control Technology," "Key Laboratory for Aquaculture Animal Nutrition and Healthy Breeding of the Ministry of Agriculture," "Sichuan Key Laboratory for Aquaculture Healthy Breeding" and "Sichuan Aquaculture Engineering Technology Research Center," with an annual R&D input of over 100 million yuan.

Tongwei Technology Center is a national enterprise technology center jointly recognized by five ministries and commissions, including the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Science and Technology. After years of development and operation, the Technology Center has built a sound scientific research and innovation organizational structure and operating mechanism, specializing in biotechnology-related research and technology integration, such as animal nutrition and feed, high-quality animal cultivation and breeding, animal health care, automatic husbandry facility engineering, aquatic and livestock products processing. The Center has provided significant technical support for the company's development by transforming innovative research achievements into real productivity.
Tongwei Technology Center has many scientific research institutions, including Fisheries Research Institute, Special Fisheries Research Institute, Livestock and Poultry Research Institute, Animal Health Research Institute, Facilities Fisheries Engineering Research Institute, Fisheries Engineering Center, Inspection Center, etc. It is devoted to effectively guiding innovation research, clarifying innovation goals, refining innovation tasks, and ensuring innovation results. According to the "Notice on Printing and Distributing Evaluation Results of National Enterprise Technology Centers in 2021" issued by the General Office of the National Development and Reform Commission, Tongwei Technology Center was once again evaluated as "excellent" with high scores in the annual evaluation of more than 1,700 enterprise technology centers in China.

In recent years, Tongwei's agriculture business has applied for more than 800 patents, with 329 of them being invention patents (including 2 PCTs); has presided over or participated in the formulation and revision of seven national standards, five industry standards, six local standards, and a group standard; has obtained the approvals of three national new aquatics and two National New Veterinary Drug Certificates; has published nine monographs and 192 papers, including 20 SCIs. In the past few years, Tongwei has won the second prize of the State Scientific and Technological Progress Award three times and has won twice the first prize of the National Harvest Award for Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Aquaculture of the Ministry of Agriculture and Village, the first prize of the China Agricultural Science and Technology Award of the Ministry of Agriculture and Village, and the first prize of Sichuan Science and Technology Progress Award and the second prize of Sichuan Patent Award.

In 2021, Tongwei Technology Center fully implemented the company's construction guidelines for the three-level R&D system: forward-looking, primary, and applied research. The forward-looking research focuses on the production and application research of single-cell protein as the raw material of fish feed protein, such as the industrialization and application research of single-cell bacterial protein and the "PV+algae" research of feed-grade spirulina. The applied research uses various R&D results to develop new products around the business needs. For example, the Center produces high-end freshwater seedlings "Kaikoule," immunity enhancement feed "Yukang No.1", special overwintering feed "Yudongjian," etc. The unmanned and intelligent prawn aquaculture workshops and circulating water treatment systems are also being developed to achieve intelligent water quality control, accurate feed feeding, and efficient disease prevention and control.
For a long time, Tongwei has established a young and high-quality scientific research and technological innovation team committed to consolidating the company's scientific research capabilities and making its products more competitive under the leadership of experts who enjoy the Special Government Allowance of the State Council.