China has become a big country of genetically modified crops planting

Introduction: Jiang Jianke, reporter of new page 1, reported that the Chinese government attaches great importance to the research of biotechnology There are more than 130 kinds of genetically modified organisms under study, involving more than 100 kinds of genes Especially in the fields of transgenic insect resistant cotton, transgenic rice, genetic engineering vaccine and so on, the research achievements have been in the forefront of the world In 2002, the planting area of transgenic crops in China exceeded 2.1 million hectares, becoming the largest planting country of transgenic crops after the United States, Canada, Brazil and Argentina FKM this is the information learned from the 7th APEC agricultural biotechnology and biosafety seminar held in Beijing today Zhang Fengtong, director of the Department of science, technology and education of the Ministry of agriculture, delivered a speech on behalf of the Chinese side, saying that while vigorously developing biotechnology, China attaches great importance to its impact on the ecological environment and human health As early as 1993, China issued regulations on safety management of genetic engineering In 2001, the State Council issued regulations on safety management of agricultural genetically modified organisms According to the regulations, the Ministry of Agriculture issued three supporting regulations on safety evaluation, import and export, and labeling at the beginning of last year, which comprehensively implemented the research, test, production, processing, operation and import and export activities of agricultural genetically modified organisms Administration From 1997 to September 2003, after safety assessment, the Ministry of Agriculture approved more than 10 kinds of transgenic plants such as rice, corn, cotton, soybean, rape and potato to enter the field environment for release, and approved transgenic cotton, tomato, sweet pepper and other plants and animal microbial genetic engineering vaccine to enter the commercial production FKM