Last month, the State Council of China released the details of the five-year National Science and Technology Innovation Plan, which is designed to further progress scientific advancements in China. With the goal of continuing and improving China’s global scientific innovation contributions, the Innovation Plan includes but is not limited to: developing projects to further treat […]

Early this month, the Communist Party and the State Council’s Central Committee issued recommendations to permit scientists and researchers to have more control over the allocation of research grants for R&D funding. From 2010 to 2014, China’s total expenditure on R&D grew from CNY 706.3 billion to CNY 1.3 trillion ($211 billion), making up a […]

Sequencing in China is on a rapid rise, with the country accounting for 20%–30% of global sequencing capacity. Driving this growth is China’s 15-year precision medicine program (see IBO 1/31/16). The multi-billion dollar budget of the initiative will be used for improving precision medicine technology, sequencing, analyzing over a million human genomes, and drug development […]