CHINA TOPIX

World's Biggest Animal Clone Factory Causes tension in China

Victoria Stanley   |

Nov 25, 2015 09:06 AM EST

World's biggest animal cloning factory is been constructed in China. The plan is to churn out horses, dogs and up to almost a million beef cattle a year, causing online unrest on Tuesday. According to Enca, the project costing about 200-million-yuan will include a gene bank and cloning laboratories. The facility is being implemented by Boyalife, a Chinese biotechnology firm and Sooam Biotech, South Korea's firm. The founder of Sooam Biotech was involved in a controversy ten years ago over claims to have cloned human embryos, together with two other Chinese research institutions.