Founded by School of Life Sciences and Technology, the center was approved by Education Department of Henan in October 2009. It mainly studies utilization of agricultural biomass such as crop straws, excrements of livestocks, aquaculture water, and rural living wastes, focusing on straw cellulose ethanol fermentation technology, straw based environmental protection material development and application technology, pretreatment technology of the crop straw gasification, crop straw liquefaction, efficient anaerobic fermentation process, key technology of two phase biogas production and its equipment, integrated application technology of biogas manure, efficient application technology of the matrix of straw and other agricultural and sideline products, and development and application technology of agricultural biomass chemical products. The center has twenty members including six professors, eight associate professors and seven doctors. During a long term of development and application research on agricultural biomass resources, the center, three unique research areas have been set up: biology energy sources, bioproducts, straw building materials. The center has undertaken ten projects of National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of China, over thirty ministerial programs and projects of Henan, and three international cooperative projects, with nearly nine million RMB from project fundings at various levels. Over one hundred graduates have joined the campus practice teaching and technological innovative activities. In the past three years, the center has published over one hundred articles with over thirty collected by the Science Citation Index.