A seminar on “Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering”，a major project during the 11th Five-year Plan Period, was held in Beijing recently. It was mainly focused on the overall development objective and key project achievements. 19 project undertakers gave presentations on the current progress of their studies and objectives.

The seminar also discussed the future work plan. It is planned to hold an annual work meeting during the implementation of the projects to sum up achievements of the phase, to further define development objective as well as intensify the exchange between various projects teams so as to promote mutual cooperation and lay a good foundation for the development in this field.