The Tianjin animal cloning center was planned in 2015 and "to be put into use in the first half of 2016"
in the
Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area of
Tianjin
Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popul ...
, China,
but as of 2022, no opening has been reported.
Development
The factory was announced to be developed by Sinica, a subsidiary of the Chinese company Boyalife, along with the Institute of Molecular Medicine at
Peking University
Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education.
Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...
, the Tianjin International Joint Academy of Biomedicine, and the
Sooam Bioengineering Research Institute in South Korea.
Facility and operations
The 14,000-square-metre facility would have hosted a laboratory, a cloning center, a gene bank, and educational exhibits for the public.
[Wei, Jiang (November 23, 2015).]
Tianjin plans world's largest animal cloning factory
. ''China Daily''. Retrieved December 1, 2015. The consortium planned to spend 200 million RMB (US$31 million) to produce 100,000 cloned cattle per year for China's rapidly growing beef market, and then expand to one million cattle per year
''Agence France-Presse''. Phys.org. November 24, 2015.["Animal cloning center to be built in Tianjin"](_blank)
Boyalife. Press release. November 23, 2015 (China planned to buy one million head of cattle from Australia in 2016 at a cost of US$2 billion
). In addition to cows, the factory had planned to clone many different types of animals, including dogs, horses, and endangered and
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
animals.
[Clover, Charles; Cookson, Clive (November 24, 2015).]
Chinese-Korean joint venture to mass-produce cloned beef cattle
. ''The Financial Times''. [Davis, Rebecca (November 30, 2015).]
. ''Agence France-Presse''. Yahoo! News. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
See also
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Beijing Genomics Institute
BGI Group, formerly Beijing Genomics Institute, is a Chinese genomics company with headquarters in Yantian District, Shenzhen. The company was originally formed in 1999 as a genetics research center to participate in the Human Genome Project. ...
(BGI)
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Stem cell laws and policy in China The laws and policies regarding stem cell research in the People's Republic of China are relatively relaxed in comparison to that of other nations. The reason for this is due to different traditional and cultural views in relation to that of the Wes ...
References
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Meat industry
Intensive farming
Ethically disputed business practices towards animals
Cloning