$100m Shanghai biomedical research center officially opens

The National Center for Protein Science Shanghai, a $100 million science facility, has received approval from Chinese science authorities to officially open.

"As one of the 12 large science facilities deployed by the government's 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-10), the facility is an important measure to enhance the level of biomedicine research in China," said Lin Nianxiu, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, during the project acceptance meeting in Shanghai on Tuesday.

"Only with such a facility will we be able to catch up with the scientific research of developed countries or even exceed theirs," Lin said.