Huaxia Science Popularization Program has raised 100 million yuan in Series A financing. The photovoltaic greenhouse technology helps the agricultural photovoltaic project recover its costs in three years.
Huaxia Science Popularization: A Disruptor in Remodeling Modern Agriculture with BIPV Greenhouse Technology
When traditional facility agriculture is deeply trapped in the dilemma of high energy consumption and low returns, rooftop photovoltaics are struggling to achieve an 8% rate of return, and traditional agricultural - PV complementary projects face the risk of rectification due to the imbalance between PV dominance and weak agricultural performance, a Beijing - based startup, Huaxia Science Popularization Biotechnology, is using its original PV greenhouse technology to break through the industry bottleneck. It breaks the deadlock with the "PV + Agriculture + Technology" trinity model. The pay - back period of agricultural - PV complementary and facility agriculture projects is compressed from the industry average of 10 years to 3 years. The first "zero - carbon park" demonstration project has been launched in Yangzhen, Shunyi, Beijing, providing a new model for modern agricultural investment. With the "world - first flexible PV tracking system PV greenhouse and a PV greenhouse with automatic energy exchange" and the "six - dimensional profit closed - loop" as its core weapons, it not only solves the core pain points of agricultural modernization but also compresses the project pay - back period to an astonishing 3 years, targeting the "toughest nut" in China's agricultural modernization process.
Core Technologies Subvert Industry Logic
Huaxia Science Popularization's breakthrough innovation starts from a deep deconstruction of the pain points of traditional agricultural - PV complementarity. The independently developed "pendulum - type linked PV greenhouse" (Patent No.: ZL2025104135843) and "energy - exchange double - membrane greenhouse" (Patent No.: ZL202520160438X) by the team have achieved the organic integration of PV panels and agricultural production for the first time. By replacing traditional sunshades with flexible PV panels that dynamically track sunlight, the power generation efficiency is increased by 10 - 20% compared with fixed PV shed roofs. At the same time, using light - converting film and shadow - free film technologies, the light uniformity in the greenhouse is increased by 100%, avoiding the impact of PV panel shadows on crops and increasing the photosynthetic efficiency by 30%.
Another innovation comes from the "energy - storage water - fertilizer integration device" (Patent No.: ZL2025201626092). Driven by off - grid PV power supply for the circulation system, it integrates energy storage, fermentation, and drip - irrigation functions, increasing the water - fertilizer utilization rate to 90% and saving an average of 1,500 yuan in annual operating costs per mu. The quadruple - technology system of "dynamic shading + acidic water - fertilizer neutralization + microbial fertilizer improvement + plant salt extraction" for saline - alkali land treatment has been approved for a 5,000 - mu saline - alkali land improvement pilot project in Tianjin, achieving an annual soil desalination amount of 400 kg/ha and shortening the transformation period by 50%.
Six - Dimensional Profit Model Validates Economic Feasibility
In the 150 - mu demonstration park in Yangzhen, Shunyi, Beijing, Huaxia Science Popularization's "three - year pay - back" business logic is being verified. The total project investment is 25 million yuan. Driven by the dual engines of "front - loaded power generation income + back - loaded agricultural value - added", a six - dimensional profit closed - loop is constructed. The total income in the first year exceeded 11.5 million yuan, with 3.5 million yuan contributed by PV power generation and 4 million yuan from government subsidies. The business forms such as cold - chain logistics, high - value - added agricultural product sales (with an average output value of 10,000 yuan per mu in the first year), and shared manors support the continuous growth of income. It is expected that the proportion of agricultural income will exceed 60% in the third year, and the total income will reach 30 million yuan.
The core of this model lies in the dynamic balance between policy dividends and market returns. As the power generation income and subsidies decrease year by year, the market - oriented income from agricultural product sales and energy consumption fills the gap with an annual growth rate of 100%. For example, the price - locking agreements signed with Hema Fresh and JD Farm can cover 60% of the agricultural product production capacity. The derivative services such as PV ice - making and cold - chain logistics further magnify the advantage of energy self - sufficiency, forming a competitive barrier of "electricity cost per kilowatt - hour less than 0.4 yuan".
Government - Enterprise Collaboration Solves Land and Approval Dilemmas
During the project promotion, Huaxia Science Popularization innovatively adopted the government - enterprise cooperation model of "led by agricultural entities + supporting filing for new energy". The agricultural company handles the filing for facility agricultural land, and then introduces PV investors through a rooftop leasing agreement to complete the dual - qualification approval of "agriculture - energy" at the county level, compressing the procedure - handling period to 3 - 6 months. This strategy has been successfully practiced in Lanzhou, Beijing and other places. Although the Lanzhou project was postponed in 2024 due to the adjustment of the distributed electricity price policy, the accumulated government - enterprise cooperation experience has fed back into subsequent layouts.
Currently, the company has established five major bases in Beijing, Tianjin, Chongqing, Jiangsu, and Guangdong. It plans to build 40 industrial parks by 2028 and form a network of 100 parks covering 20 provinces by 2030. It is estimated that after the completion of 100 parks, the annual power generation will reach 600 million kWh, reducing 250,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, which is equivalent to planting 1 million trees. At the same time, it will create 3,000 permanent jobs and 20,000 seasonal jobs, activating the land value - appreciation potential.
Capital Layout Aims at Green Asset Securitization
Facing the long - cycle nature of agricultural investment, Huaxia Science Popularization has designed a hierarchical exit path for capital. Short - term investors can exit within 1 - 2 years through project engineering profits and premiums (annualized return > 15%). Long - term capital holds the power station operation rights, enjoys the dividends from agricultural product sales and subsidy income (annualized return of 30%), and awaits the expected 10 - fold return from the company's listing on the Growth Enterprise Market within 5 years. Currently, the company has launched a Series A financing, planning to raise 100 million yuan (valued at 625 million yuan), focusing on the development of an AI planting decision - making system and capacity expansion. It plans to add 20 new patents in 3 years to consolidate its technological moat.
When the capital market is generally cautious about agricultural projects, the value of Huaxia Science Popularization lies in transforming "heavy assets" into "high - turnover assets", leveraging high - value - added output with an average annual output value of 30,000 yuan per mu, and shifting agriculture from "depending on the weather" to "generating profits through technology". As the blueprint of 100 parks across the country is being promoted, this enterprise is writing the golden rule for the integration of modern agriculture and new energy.
Behind the technological breakthrough is the team's more than 20 - year industry accumulation. This team with both engineering practice and scientific research genes has achieved efficient transformation of technological innovation from the laboratory to industrialization. When asked about the entrepreneurial experience, Guo Jinhui emphasized: "Modern agriculture needs not only single - point breakthroughs but also the reconstruction of the industrial chain. We are turning PV from an energy device into a production tool, allowing every inch of land to produce both food and green electricity at the same time." "What we are selling is not electricity or vegetables, but the exponential growth right of agricultural land value." Guo Jinhui's words may reveal the ultimate battlefield of agricultural new energy.
This professional agricultural team is using hardcore technology and business wisdom to write a new solution for China's agricultural modernization.