Prof Dale Sanders, Director of the John Innes Centre （JIC）, accompanied by Mr. Alan Giles, Chair of the JIC Business Development Group and Norwich Research Park Director, visited IGDB in the morning of June 8. Dr. YANG Weicai, the Deputy Director, hosted their visit. Scientists from the Center for Genome Biology and the Center for Molecular Agrobiology of the institute attended the discussion on possibility of a joint institute in China.