The 1st World Congress of Gene (WCG) was held during April 25-30, 2005 in Dalian, China. More than 5000 participants joined the opening ceremony on April 25, 2005. Five Nobel Prize Laureates and about 150 representatives from 25 countries offered lectures in 33 scientific sessions. The following up events were extended to three other cities, i.e. Shanghai, Beijing and Xi'an.

Such an event has generated direct impacts on more than 30,000 professionals, industrial scientists, managers, government officers, graduate students and even elemental students across China. Meanwhile, tremendous professional data bases and customer resources have been established, which will definitely helpful for those who are interested in building up partnerships and supporting the ethic drug discovery programs across the world. WCG has been successfully turned into a new idea and value sharing for the international intellectual properties exchanges as many other governmental institutions or information providers have done, it has established a new milestone in China for encouraging extensive professional training workshops, high profile scientific symposia for the life sciences, entrepreneurship, international business development and scientific popularizations for lay public as well. WCG play a meaningful role in educating not just a single person, but energize a whole family of life science devotees, it can be a gathering home of life scientists. WCG not only celebrate achievements, but also celebrate the success for the future scientists, it has already become excellent meeting places and learning center for professionals, graduate students, also, an outstanding information provider for the bio scientific resource integration.