BGI is the worlds largest gene factory

Founded in Shenzen 12 years ago, BGI now has nearly 4.000 employees and a turnover of 1 billion Yuan, 50 % from abroad. Chinese affiliations are in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Qingdao and Xi’an. Foreign branches are in the US,...

State Council issues „Bio-Industry Plan for 2020“

The output of the Chinese biological industry in 2020 will be at 2 trillion Yuan (~230 billion €), with continuing annual growth rates of over 20 %, and the emergence of a biopharmaceutical, bio-agricultural, bio-industrial and bio-energy industry began to take shape....