世纪之交,世界新兴生物技术迅猛发展,成为当今新技术革命的重要标志之一。利用生物技术开发出的各种产品,已广泛地应用到社会生活的许多方面。在2000年5月22日出版的美国《时代》周刊上,有人预测:人类社会在经历了农业经济时代、工业经济时代和现在的信息经济时代后,“人们将迎来下一个经济时代:生物经济时代”。比尔·盖茨预言:“超过我的下一个世界首富,应该来自于基因领域。” At the turn of the century, the world's emerging biotechnology has developed rapidly and has become an important symbol of today's new technological revolution. Various products developed using biotechnology have been widely applied to many aspects of social life. In the “Time” magazine published on May 22, 2000, it is predicted that after the human society has experienced the era of agricultural economy, industrial economy and present-day information economy, “people will usher in the next economic era: biology Economic era. ” Bill Gates predicted: “Beyond my next richest man in the world, it should come from the field of genetics.”