Biotechnology will undoubtedly become the backbone of the industry in the 21st century. In 1996, National Engineering Center for Biotechnology (NECB) was established by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China to boost the industrialization and commercialization of the original biotechnological achievements. In 1998, Shenzhen branch of NECB (SNECB) was established with the cooperation of Shenzhen Municipal Government. In 1999, the SNECB was ratified as one of national class engineering center with Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing Branches after strict investigation of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China.

The goal of SNECB is to combine the state key biotech researching achievements with the engineering technology, making it a transformation base linking Hongkong, Macao, Taiwan and southeast Asia, for Shenzhen and even the country, and promoting the internationalization of our biotech industry.

SNECB received great attention and support from Shenzhen Municipal Government since its establishment. The deputy mayor Yingli Liu was appointed as the chairman of SNECB following the former deputy mayor Rongjun Guo. And professor Fan Ouyang, a distinguished expert in biotechnology, was appointed as the director. It is believed that the most important things of SNECB was to promote the development of bio-industry in Shenzhen, by introducing promising or well-developed scientific achievements, making technical and economic evaluation and consulting and offering technical service for the enterprises.

SNECB situates in the scenery High-Tech Industrial Park near the Shenzhen Bay, equipped with a lot of advanced equipments and instruments for gene cloning, bacterial fermentation, cell culture or virus replication, separation and purification, quality control, etc. The GMP standard laboratory can satisfy the R&D demands of recombinant pharmaceuticals, immunological reagents and PCR kits. And the professional R&D team with experienced high-tech personnel with doctor or master degree is the guarantee for successful development of recombinant medicines.

In the new century, SNECB will always go ahead and devote herself to the development of Chinese bio-industry.

Function

1 Development of new bio-product, innovation and industrialization of new bio-technology
2 Scale-up and commercialization of entrusted project, application for new drug certificate
3 Offering special technique service and information consultation
4 Industrialization planning and technical validation of bio-project
5 Improving and perfecting the whole set of industrial technique
6 Participate in bio-industry programming and investment evaluation in Shenzhen