On February 22, 2006, an O-type GE vaccine, jointly developed by Fudan University, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Lanzhou Veterinary Institute, a part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, called a success at a review meeting co-sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Education. It makes the first genetic engineering vaccine for foot-and-mouth disease allowing for commercial applications in the world.

The new vaccine is able to produce a highly effective prevention with an absolute safety, as it is made not through cultivating massive highly pathogenic strains of foot-and-mouth viruses, and carries no pathogenic elements in its GE products.The project has listed as a special project by the State Development and Reform Commission, under the national efforts for agricultural modernization in 2005. It plans to materialize its commercial applications at Inner Mongolia Biopharmaceuticals.