Introduction: The construction of the institute was approved by the Human Resources Center of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and The Chinese Society of Agriculture on November 2, 2021, and organized by Shanxi Agricultural University, implemented by Sorghum Research Institute of Shanxi Agricultural University. Franchise members of the institute includes 28 international science and technology organizations, well-known agricultural universities, research institutes and leading enterprises in the whole sorghum industry chain, such as Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Agricultural University and the NEXT FEDERATION. With the whole sorghum industry as the carrier and academic, talent and science and technology as the platform, we will carry out the cooperation and exchange among "The Belt and Road" countries from a global perspective, and enhance the international status of China's sorghum industry. At present, the Innovation Institute has carried out academic exchanges with Ethiopia, Zambia and other countries, and carried out sorghum variety screening in Chad and Tanzania, Nigeria.