Following the launch of the three English journals horticultural research, plant Phenomics and biological design research in 2014, 2019 and 2020, it was edited by Professor Zhou Guanghong, former president of Nanjing Agricultural University, and the maximum Academic Press (map) on October 28, 2021（ http://maxapress.com ）Food materials research, a new international journal in the field of food, was officially launched! Professor Zhou Guanghong delivered his inaugural speech: http://www.maxapress.com/article/doi/FMR-2021-0001 。 You can directly click to enter. Professor Zhou Guanghong has many outstanding academic achievements and community and administrative contributions, which I will not list. Just one point: in the same year of 2018, he was elected IAFoST fellow and IFT fellow.

It took only 132 days from the first meeting on August 18, 2021 to discuss the establishment of this journal to the publication of its inaugural words on October 28, 2021, and the official papers will be launched in the near future. Visible speed. This is due to the strong support of the leaders of Nanjing Agricultural University and the school of food science and technology, and the efficient cooperation of Professor Zhou Guanghong and his team and the maximum academic press team. Catch up with the construction of world-class journals with China's speed. thank you!

I'm very happy to start this journal!

First, food raw materials are very kind to me! I remember when I was a child, I didn't eat the first apple and orange until I was more than 10 years old. It's also very rare to eat meat buns and fish. In high school, when I went to deliver food to the production team to support the field River digging team, I "ruthlessly" ate rice for the first time. I ate one kilogram of rice at a meal. Now it is the rice made of hybrid rice used to feed pigs: full of two bowls! Just a big bowl of pickled vegetable soup with a little lard! Although hunger is basically eradicated in China now - thanks to the national poverty alleviation plan! For me, I often went hungry half a century ago, but my memory is still fresh! However, from a global perspective, hundreds of millions of people still do not have enough to eat and wear. Malnutrition in underdeveloped countries and unbalanced nutrition in developed countries are even more common. It really makes me happy to participate in the establishment of this journal and focus on the research of food raw materials!

Second, Nanjing Agricultural University is keeping pace with Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and Zhejiang University, and striving to allocate an international journal to each class a discipline. The founding of food materials research took a small step forward. 2022 should be even bigger! Advance towards the goal of this magazine!

Third, this journal is the second cooperative journal published by map (the first is the research on beverage plants by the Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences), and three cooperative journals are being established. There are also two journals founded in direct cooperation with scholars. Since map was founded in early 2021, only 10 months ago, 9 journals have been online, and 6 should be able to publish their inaugural words this year. In this way, the goal of establishing 15 journals this year has been achieved. As a new publishing house, the field of periodicals has been expanded to five categories: agriculture, plants, food, engineering and liberal arts. This is the first step. It has been recognized and "sealed" by many first-class cooperation units. It really makes me feel that as long as you "use your heart" and treat cooperation sincerely, there will be partners and you can make it. We have confidence! Welcome to cooperate with us!

Map not only provides simple online publishing and paper storage, but also uses us to become a "leading" Journal. In three years, it has ranked first in the world and maintained the first (Horticultural Research), and has been selected into SCI (plant Phenomics) for two and a half years and selected into a new high starting point Journal (plant Phenomics and biological design research) for one and a half years A first-class international journal of "making, strengthening, expanding and enriching". The temple does not have to be big, but monks must be able to read scriptures. Journals serve scholars and publishers serve journals, which is the purpose. The founding concept of map is to be a journal in professional fields, first a flagship journal (corresponding to the first-class discipline of the Ministry of Education), and then a first-class Journal (the second-class discipline of the Ministry of Education). The goal is JCR district I and District II.