中国日益关注生物技术发展,以面对人口与健康及生物多样性保护等领域的巨大挑战。 中国科学院生物所所长朱祯在第六届北京生物医药产业发展论坛上说，生物技术在中国发展不到30年，而其产品的销售额已从1986年的2.6亿元人民币上升到2000年的200亿元人民币。每年公科技部、国家自然科学基金委员会和中国科学院三部门投入到生命科学和生物技术研究的 China is paying increasing attention to the development of biotechnology to face the enormous challenges in areas such as population and health and biodiversity conservation. Zhu Zhen, director of the Institute of Biology at Chinese Academy of Sciences, said at the 6th Beijing Biomedical Industry Development Forum that biotechnology has been growing in China for less than 30 years and sales of its products have risen from 260 million yuan in 1986 to 2000 200 billion yuan. Each year the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Chinese Academy of Sciences into three departments of life science and biotechnology research