Economic Watch: China's tech sector taps bioproduction to fuel expansion

NAMPA / Xinhua

2025-06-30

BEIJING, June 30 (Xinhua) -- In a workshop in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu, rows of fermentation tanks are filled with genetically modified microorganisms that are producing a new generation of chemotherapy drugs. Since its inception in 2002 as a small R&D team of less than 10, Biostar Pharma, a Beijing-based biopharmaceutical firm, has expanded into a company with a 10,000-square-meter automated workshop. It has developed the worl......

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