North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region has unveiled a new action plan to strengthen its breeding industry through science and technology, aiming to establish a full-chain biological breeding innovation system by 2030.

The plan outlines five key priorities: protecting and evaluating germplasm resources, advancing modern biological breeding technologies, developing breakthrough crop and livestock varieties, improving seed breeding and propagation, and building a multi-level breeding innovation platform.

It focuses on developing high-yield, high-quality, climate-resilient, and efficient varieties while integrating cutting-edge technologies such as gene discovery, gene editing, whole-genome selection, and intelligent breeding design into a comprehensive breeding, propagation, and commercialization system.

As part of its efforts to strengthen the foundation of the seed industry, Inner Mongolia will establish a regional germplasm conservation network, carry out the emergency conservation of rare and endangered genetic resources, and build three to five regional germplasm resource banks.

More than 10,000 crop germplasm accessions will be identified and evaluated, while an intelligent phenotyping platform and eight to 10 germplasm phenotype databases will be established to support scientific breeding.

The action plan also calls for improving cross-departmental coordination, expanding diversified funding channels, fostering leading seed enterprises and specialized industrial clusters, and attracting high-level talent in various areas, including gene editing, intelligent breeding, and big data. It also encourages deeper international cooperation, including exchanges under the Belt and Road Initiative, to accelerate the commercialization of research achievements.

By 2030, Inner Mongolia aims to achieve breakthroughs in more than 10 key breeding technologies for crops and livestock, develop over 15 new plant and animal varieties with independent intellectual property rights and strong market competitiveness, increase the regional market share of locally developed proprietary varieties by 5 to 10 percentage points, and establish more than 15 national- and regional-level breeding innovation platforms.