Dr. Bart Wacek, the executive publisher who is in charge of the Genetics journals of Elsevier, and Ms Laney Zhou, Head of Content Development of Elsevier Information Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd, visited the editorial office of Journal of Genetics and Genomics (JGG) on 19 May, 2010. Dr. Yongbiao Xue, Editor-in-Chief of JGG, hosted the visit. JGG’s editorial board members, Drs. Dahua Chen, Chonglin Yang and Jian Zhang, and the editorial office staff also attended the meeting. The presentations and discussions are mainly centered on JGG’s publishing issues, including a full service for the journal production process, Open Access, training courses for our editorial staff. Both parties agree that the communications like this should be strengthened in the future, which will be very helpful and valuable for promoting JGG.’s further development into a leading journal in the fields of genetics and genomics.