Biotech boom, pride of Anhui

Beijing-based Sinobioway Group Co Ltd, a major biotech company in China, is building the world's largest biotech drug production base at the Bantang township in Hefei, capital of Anhui province in East China.

The facility, shaped in the form of antibody ATCG and to be called the Bantang Bioeconomy Experimental Zone, will have 100 production lines to be completed in 10 to 15 years. The first five lines will be completed by the end of this year.

Work on another 10 will also start later this year, said Cao Wenbo, president of Anhui Sinobioway Bioeconomy Group, a subsidiary of Sinobioway Group.