Combined file photo shows the restoration process of a ceramic seat from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) at Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Institute in the city of Jingdezhen, east China's Jiangxi Province. (Xinhua)
Photo taken on June 8, 2022 shows a staff member displaying a specimen of ceramics from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) at Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Institute in the city of Jingdezhen, east China's Jiangxi Province. (Photo by Wang Kaifeng/Xinhua)
Undated photo shows the exterior view of the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum in Jingdezhen, east China's Jiangxi Province. (Xinhua)
Photo taken on June 8, 2022 shows a staff member displaying "gene" specimens of ceramics from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) at Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Institute in the city of Jingdezhen, east China's Jiangxi Province. (Photo by Wang Kaifeng/Xinhua)
Undated file photo shows the site of the kiln relic in Jingdezhen, east China's Jiangxi Province. (Xinhua)
Combined file photo shows a restored three-colored duck-shaped incense burner (top) from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and its relics before restoration at Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Institute in the city of Jingdezhen, east China's Jiangxi Province. (Xinhua)
China will establish a "gene bank" of ancient ceramics in east China's Jiangxi Province, based on data from nearly 20 million pieces of ceramics specimens accumulated in some 40 years, authorities announced Saturday. Over a hundred pieces of "gene" information can be traced through just a piece of ancient ceramic fragment, offering details about the body, glaze, pigment, to name a few, said Weng Yanjun, president of the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Institute in the city of Jingdezhen, a world-famous "porcelain capital."
China has been working closely on its national precision medicine initiative featuring a gene bank covering at least several million Chinese, said a top Chinese scientist. Cao Xuetao, president of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said the initiative would comprise a series of policies and measures that are set to come out soon.
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