As global development competition intensifies in the field of biotechnology, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hagita visited the latest bio-research base in Hyogo prefecture, aiming to achieve both economic growth and a carbon-free society. He showed a policy of focusing on investment in the field.
On the 4th, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hagiuda visited Hyogo Prefecture, where the manufacturing and R & D bases of companies and universities that utilize biotechnology are located.
Of these, in Takasago City, we visited the production bases of companies that artificially manipulated the genes of microorganisms and commercialized the world's first plastics that are decomposed in the sea, and saw tanks that produce 5,000 tons of such plastics annually. I went around.
This company is also conducting research and development on microorganisms that absorb carbon dioxide to produce plastics, and is attracting attention as a technology that can significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions toward the realization of a carbon-free society.
Development competition is intensifying around the world, with the United States and China investing trillions of yen over biotechnology, and the government will focus on technology that modifies the genes of microorganisms to make materials. It is a policy.
After the visit, Minister Hagiuda said, "Bio is an innovation that enables us to pursue both social issues and affluence, and is a major pillar for the realization of new capitalism. International investment competition is fierce. I would like to firmly raise the flag of "Bio-Nation" as a country as the country grows. "