The Airport Business Park is an important part of the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone. [Photo provided to China Daily]

The research results in soil improvement technologies they made in Beijing were industrialized in Tianjin for curbing local salt marshes.

Peking University has set up a graduates' entrepreneurship training camp in the center, the first of its kind outside Beijing. It provides not-for-profit entrepreneurship classes, innovation services and investment.

"Our camp has attracted many potential entrepreneurs," said Yuan Hang, general manager of the training camp, adding that by the end of February, they had signed agreements on 63 projects with those who want to start businesses, including 19 projects by Peking University graduates.