The preparatory meeting of the Symposium on “Ethics and Governance of Human Genome Editing” was co-sponsored by the Philosophy Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Bioethics Committee of the Chinese Society of Dialectics in May 11, 2019. A number of well-known research groups in China participated in this preparatory meeting. It was held at the Philosophy Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Dr. Jiao Pengfei from the CBRS Center at Tianjin University attended the preparatory meeting and made a speech on .