Following the December 2008 Hubei Yongxiang Food Machinery Co., Ltd. to became the membership of first  university  and  enterprises  Cooperation  Committee of  Huazhong University of Science  and Technology ,  on  March  1,  2009  a  R & D  Center was jointly set up and on April 8 the opening ceremony was held, marking that substantive technical cooperation between the two sides was officially come into operation.