Table 3.

Priority topics in China’s bioeconomy program

Priority	Examples
Biomedical technologies	Personalized medicine, genetic screening, telemedicine, and remote diagnosis, more powerful traditional Chinese medicine TCM
Agriculture and food	Variety assurance and improvement, molecular plant, and animal breeding, “green,” circular, and environmentally friendly agriculture, health-promoting foods such as probiotics
Energy and materials from biomass	Biogas, ethanol from cellulose, algae biofuels, bio-kerosene, biodegradable mulch, and packaging materials
Safeguarding biological resources	National census for forests, grasslands, plant valuable materials including active ingredients for TCM, red list for biodiversity, satellite-based remote diagnostics and tracking, digital libraries, and resource banks
Leadership in key technologies	Synthetic biology, computational protein design, sequencing technologies
Biological security systems	National biosecurity and “global governance” in a changing world