On December 5-7, 2008, BIT's 2nd World Congress of Gene-2008 was held successfully in Foshan, China. During the Opening Ceremony, Dr. Xiaodan Mei, the Executive Chairman of this event delivered opening remarks to welcome all our participants.

Totally, there were nearly 200 participants from more than 20 countries and regions attended the WCG-2008. With a theme of “Decoding Life for Human Health”, many honored guests presented at the ceremony and gave brilliant speeches on invitation, among them are Dr. Avram Hershko, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2004; Dr. Trevor G Marshall, Director, Autoimmunity Research Foundation, USA, Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University, Western Australia; Dr. Victor Shi, President, QIAGEN Asia .

The conference consists of 16 sessions which are under 3 tracks including basic science, frontier technologies, and industrial applications of gene technologies and business development of gene science respectively. Scientists, industrial professionals and key-decision makers delivered the new achievement on their research, together discussed and analyzed the development of new scientific ideas and initiatives of genomics.

According to the investigations after the conference, over 70% participants expressed that they would like to attend WCG-2009. Depending on the warmly support and good suggestions from all of the participants, we are confident in organizing WCG-2009 which would be better and more successful than WCG-2009.