Shenzhen Municipal Health Commission entrusts BGI-Research to operate Shenzhen BGI Hospital, a major health project in Shenzhen, and positioned as a municipal public hospital.

In Ethiopia, a COVID-19 testing kit production factory with an annual output of 10 million kits invested by BGI Genomics officially started operation, which not only fulfilled the gap of COVID-19 testing kits production, but also further boosted the COVID-19 testing capability in the country.

BGI-Research cooperated with Kunming Institute of Zoology and other units to publish two articles in Nature as cover articles, reporting the latest research results at the second stage (family level) of the Bird 10,000 Genomes Project (B10K)..

BGI-Research and other institutions published the research result of monotremata genomes, and studied the evolution process of monotremata multi-pair chromosomes and some mammalian traits through whole-genome analysis for the first time. Relevant results were published in Nature.

MGI launched MGISP-NE384, a high-throughput automated nucleic acid extractor with a daily throughput of over 10,000 samples per unit.

Two research papers which were led and participated by BGI-Research were published online in Cell, revealing the mystery of vertebrate evolution from aquatic form to terrestrial form from different perspective and evolution nodes.