Posted on Mar. 20, 2026 by Dong Quanyue|Qingdao Vocational and Technical College of Hotel Management
On March 17, a delegation led by Meng Xiangmin, Vice Dean of the School of Biological Engineering at Qingdao University of Science and Technology, visited the School of Hospitality Management of the college. The two sides held an exchange meeting on the Tea + Marine Deep Processing Product Development Project.
Leng Xueyan, Dean of the School of Hospitality Management, introduced the college's progress and typical cases in cultural communication, skilled talent training, and tea product development.
Focusing on the scientific research advantages of the School of Biological Engineering in the high-value utilization of marine biological resources, Meng Xiangmin highlighted the latest achievements in the extraction and application of marine active ingredients.
Both sides stated that interdisciplinary collaborative innovation is an important path to promote the upgrading of traditional industries. They expressed expectations to take this cooperation as an opportunity to explore more possibilities for the integrated development of tea culture + marine science and technology.
At the meeting, members of the Tea + Marine Featured Product R&D Project team reported on the preliminary research of the Marine Tea Series Products project. Based on Laoshan green tea as the raw material, this series combines marine-derived ingredients such as concha haliotidis, collagen peptides, alginate, and astaxanthin. The first-phase product line is initially planned to include health-preserving tea drinks, sugar-controlling noodles, organic lipsticks, etc.
Participants held in-depth discussions on key issues including project cooperation division of labor, product priority, market positioning, consumer groups, cost analysis, and regulatory compliance. Both sides unanimously agreed to give full play to their respective advantages, clarify the R&D path, and steadily promote product implementation.
After full communication, the two sides basically determined the R&D goals and work plans for the first-phase products of the Marine Tea Series, and clarified the follow-up cooperation mechanism, striving to complete the R&D and standardization of the first batch of products within the year.
This exchange meeting is not only a vivid practice for the two colleges to implement the requirements of the Ministry of Education on adhering to cluster promotion, university-university cooperation, enterprise-enterprise collaboration, and university-enterprise docking, but also a powerful measure for both sides to explore interdisciplinary high-skilled talent cluster training programs and promote the linkage reform of key teaching elements.
The two sides will carry out in-depth cooperation around product R&D, standard formulation, and achievement transformation. By building a collaborative innovation mechanism of university-university resource sharing and complementary advantages, they will jointly create an innovative product system with marine characteristics and tea cultural heritage, injecting new impetus into the development of local characteristic resources and the service of regional economic development.
