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The Chinese government's backing for genetic experimentation and the absence of meaningful public opposition provide ideal conditions for the country to realise its ambition of becoming a global biotech leader.
China is looking to extend its growing economic reach and match its forays into space and cyberspace with a bid to become a global power in bio-engineering. Economic planners, biologists, botanists and even farmers are joining the long march into this brave new world, and Beijing is pouring resources in pursuit of that goal. "In terms of public expenditures on agricultural biotechnology, China is almost the largest in the world," says Professor Scott Rozelle, an expert on agriculture at ...
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