China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center (CGMCC) is a non-profit organization financed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It was founded in 1979 as the central culture collection in the cooperative network of various collections in China. CGMCC has started to carry out its tasks as a depository organization of China designated by Patent Bureau of China since 1985 and as an International Depository Authority (IDA) under the regulations of the Budapest Treaty since 1995. CGMCC has participated in the Project of National Infrastructure of Science and Technology supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China as the core facility for General Microbes.
    The main focus of CGMCC is to preserve, supply and maintain living microbial resources and aims......