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The construction of a new national crop gene bank kicked off on the site of China Academy of Agriculture Sciences (CAAS) on February 26, which is expected to home 1.5 million accessions of germplasm, nearly 4 times that of the current bank. As built in the mid-1980s, the current crop gene bank can only store 0.4 million accessions of germplasm. Poor facilities and low-level informatization cannot meet actual needs. Instead, the one under construction focuses on the demand for scientific research of crop breeding, basic research and industrial development in the future 50 years, featuring world-class automatization and intelligent management system.