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Observations from BIOCHINA2025 - by Zachary Sun

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A vibrant synthetic biology and biotechnology ecosystem is brewing in China

BIOCHINA2025, sponsored by this guy. There’s been a lot of talk about the rising tide of China’s biopharma community, but not as much about its counterpart in synthetic biology. To learn about this ecosystem, I’ve been traveling to China and Taiwan almost every month since the end of 2024 to get an on-the-ground viewpoint, have toured more than a dozen facilities, and have met multiple entrepreneurs. Currently wrapping up a trip to a 30,000 person (biopharma-oriented) conference and trade show, BIOCHINA2025. More thoughts later, but some current observations strictly from this conference,…

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