摘要

Biorefinery is a new industrial mode substituting renewable biomass for unrenewable fossil resource to produce bioenergy or chemicals and securing the sustainable development of social economics. Microbial cell factories, the core of biorefinery technology, were supported by many governments to keep ahead in the field of biorefinery. In this article, cell factories and biorefinery, the new industrial modes are briefly introduced. The important developments of biorefinery cell factories in technologies and applications are reviewed, based on which several key issues are addressed and future perspectives are discussed.