1997
·In November, 1997, the founder members of BGI deliberated on the International Human Genome Project in the ‘Zhang Jia Jie’ Conference, Hunan Province, and raised the forward-looking strategic vision, which gave birth to BGI.
1998
·On August 12, 1998, Human Genome Center was founded in Beijing.
1999
·On July 14, 1999, BGI was founded with the mission of 1% of the human genome for the International Human Genome Project.
·On June 6, 1999, the International Human Genome Organization announced the registration of China’s entry into International Human Genome Project, which marked China was the sixth member country of the International Human Genome Organization after America, U.K., Japan, Germany, and France. BGI, aligning with Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai and Chinese National Human Genome Center, Beijing jointly completed the mission of 1% of the human genome for the International Human Genome Project.
·At 9:9:9 on September 9, 1999, the inaugural meeting of BGI was held on the third floor of the sixth Building, B Block in Beijing Airport Industrial Zone. September 9 was authorized as the Anniversary Celebration Day of BGI.
2000
·On April 26, 2000, BGI signed a cooperative agreement of ‘Chinese Hybrid Rice Large-scale Random Sequencing and Application’ with Mr. Yuan Rongping, Mr. Zhu Lihuang from Institute of Genetics, CAS.
·On June 26, 2000, 16 centers of the International Human Genome Project jointly announced the first working frame map of the human genome had been finished.
·On June 28, 2000, the former Chairman of PRC, China, Mr. Jiang Zemin highly praised the first working frame map of the human genome and expressed his sincere thanks to the scientists and technicians. He pointed out that Human Genome Project is a magnificent scientific project in the history of sciences.
·In the year of 2000, the first working frame map of the human genome was regarded as Number One in the World Top 10 Scientific and Technological Advances and Number Four in the China Top 10 Scientific and Technological Advances.
·From October 18 to October 20, 2000, Danish scientists came to China and held formal meetings on the Project of Domestic Pig Genome in BGI.
2001
·On January 21, 2001, BGI Hangzhou was founded in the lakeside of West Lake in Hangzhou.
·On February 15, 2001, the important fruit of the Human Genome Project, the academic paper of ‘Initial Sequencing and Analysis of the Human Genome’ was published on the cover page of Nature.
·On August 26, 2001, Chinese part of the comprehensive map of the human genome in the International Human Genome Project was completed two years before scheduled and accepted by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the PRC, Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Natural Science Foundation of China.
·On August 28, 2001, the former Chairman of PRC, Mr. Jiang Zemin met with Mr. Yang Huanming and Mr. Wang Jian from BGI and other representatives from five countries when they attended the International Human Genome Conference in China.
·On October 12, 2001, Chinese Academy of Sciences, SDPC,, Ministry of Science and Technology jointly proclaimed China had accomplished the first working frame map and database of the rice genome.
2002
·On January 23, 2002, the Chinese part of the working frame map of human genome and rice genome ranked the second and third place in the 2001 Top 10 National Scientific and Technological Advances.
·In March, 2002, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) approved the BGI Bio-information System National Engineering Research Center.
·On April 5, 2002, Science published BGI’s academic paper of the working frame map of rice genome on the cover page.
·In the year of 2002, International HapMap Project was launched by American, Chinese, Canadian, Japanese, British, and Nigerian scientists. BGI, as the leader of this project, assumed 10% of the workload.
·On Novermber 11, 2002, Mr. Yang Huanming was awarded the ‘2002 Global Scientific and Technological Leader’ by Scientific American.
·In the year of 2002, the rice genome sequencing was regarded by Science as the third in 2002 Global Top 10 Accomplishments. The detailed map of rice genome ranked No. 1 of Chinese Top 10 Scientific and Technological Advances.
·In June, 2002, BGI published an academic paper of monocotyledon and dicotyledon genome.
2003
·On April 14, 2003, Presidents of six countries jointly announced the success of Human Genome Sequencing.
·In April, 2003, BGI spontaneously started the anti-SARS research by carrying out a series of systematic research on whole genome shotgun sequencing, protein analysis, diagnostic reagent kit, drug screening.
·In the year of 2003, BGI was the first institute that decoded the whole genome sequence of four kinds of SARS viruses, and developed the diagnostic antigen, antibody and related tags. At the same time, ELISA Kit, the first diagnostic reagent of SARS in the world, was produced by BGI.
·On April 20, 2003, Chairman of PRC, Mr. Hu Jintao, accompanied by President of CAS, Mr. Lu Yongxiang and Vice-President Mr. Chen Zhu, visited BGI and paid their high tributes to all the scientists and researchers who had devoted greatly in the fight against SARS. Mr. Hu Jintao encouraged the scientists and researchers to continue their concerted and unyielding efforts with confidence, carry forward patriotic spirits in the scientific researches in order to serve the people better by protecting them from diseases and harm. He spoke highly of the scientists who were always bearing the urgent need of the center government and people in mind.
·On June 1, 2003, BGI collaborated with Southwest University in the project of national domestic silkworm genome project. The working frame map of domestic silkworm genome was completed on September 18, 2003.
·On November 28, 2003, BGI, CAS was approved by the Central Government.
2004
·On January 12, 2004, according to the voting of Chinese academician from CAS and CAE, the key scientific and technological project of SARS ranked third in the 2003 Chinese National Top 10 Scientific and Technological Advances and World Top 10 Scientific and Technological Advances.
·On March 1, 2004, the working frame map of Chick was completed.
·On September 28, 2004, in the Special Report released by Science and Technology Daily, there were 55 Firsts on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of Chinese Science and Technology, including the first working frame map of human genome in the International Human Genome Project, the first detailed map of rice genome and the first working frame map of domestic silkworm.
·On November 9, 2004, CAS held the press conference on ‘The International Chick Genome Project’, the academic paper of which was published on Nature.
·On November 30, 2004, Center of Forensic Sciences, BGI sent a rescue team to identify the DNA of casualty in the Indian Ocean Tsunami.
·In the year of 2004, the academic papers of the chick and domestic silkworm genome projects were published on Science and Nature.
2005
·On February 1, 2005, the article regarding the “fine map” achievement of Rice Genome Project was published on PLoS Biology (Vol.3 Issue2, 2005).
·On July 1, 2005, on behalf of Chinese government, Chinese Premier Jiabao Wen and CAS President Yongxiang Lu handed over the DNA testing results of the tsunami victims, which was completed by BGI, to Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
·On October 27, 2005, the achievement of the International HapMap Project, which ranked 1st in the top 10 list of global science progress in 2005 (evaluated by Science), was published on the cover page of Natural.
2006
·On October 18, 2006, Nobel Prize winner James Watson, who is one of the discoverers of the double helix structure of DNA, visited BGI.
·On October 23, 2006, “2006 International Genomics Conference” that would last three days was inaugurated beside the West Lake in Hangzhou.
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