Conference to announce activities of Dong Nai Center for Applied Biotechnology held
Posted Date: 20/07/2011
On July 12, at online conference hall of Dong Nai province Department of Science and Technology and its Representative Office in Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai province Department of Science and Technology (DOST) held a press conference to announce activities of Dong Nai Center for Applied Biotechnology (DCAB) in Cam Duong commune, Cam My district. Attending the press conference were Mr. Bui Van Quyen - Department Head, a leading Representative of Ministry of Science and Technology (representative office in Ho Chi Minh City) and more than 30 representatives of press units inside and outside the province.
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At the press conference, Dr. Pham Van Sang,
Director of DOST, the standing unit carrying out project has introduced the main
features of DCAB, which is built in an area of almost 227 hectares, with the
investment capital of nearly VND1,000 billion. The project will be carried out
in two phases: between 2010 and 2015, the project will be run with
infrastructure construction, operation mechanism issuance, investment attraction
and application of biotechnology to create key plant varieties and animal breeds
of the province, and human resource attracting and training. Between 2015 and
2020, it will be run with all functional areas, deployment of wide biotechnology
applications in agriculture, food, medicine and environment ... to strive to
reach advanced level in Southeast Asia by 2020.
Dong Nai Center for Applied Biotechnology has
made use of and taken advantages of location, natural resources along with
technical infrastructure of related areas. It does not duplicate, but bring
into full play and inherit achievements that biotech research centers gained in
both short term and strategic development, meeting requirements of construction
of Hi-Tech Zone specialized in biotechnology and creating a premise for a
science city for the country in the future.
Reported by Hoai Thu, translated by T.Que