To promote biodiversity conservation, CAS has established a series of infrastructures, including botanical gardens and germplasm banks. CAS has 13 botanical gardens with a total area of 68, 319.7 hectares accounting for 67% of the total area of China's botanical gardens. Within the areas, the total natural vegetation area is 59,488.2 hectares, accounting for 78.1% of natural vegetation area of all botanical garden in China.
• Dinghushan National Nature Reserve and Arboretum, South China Botanical Garden
• West China Subalpine Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany
• Lushan Botanical Garden
• Guangxi Guilin Botanical Garden
• Nanjing Botanical Garden Mem. Sun Yat-Sen
• Fairy Lake Botanical Garden
• Qinling National Botanical Garden
Germplasm conservation
Germplasm resource is of high importance for biodiversity conservation. They are the sources of seed industry, and relate to the basis of social and economic sustainable development.
• National Wild Plant Germplasm Resource Center, Kunming Institute of Botany
• Cell Bank, Kunming Institute of Zoology
• Cell Bank/Stem Cell Bank, Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science
• Immortalized Cell Banks of Chinese Nationalities, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology
• National Stem Cell Resource Center, Institute of Zoology
• Tissue Sample Base of Wildlife Epidemic Source and Disease, Institute of Zoology
• Seaweed Culture Collection Centre, Institute of Oceanology
• National Aquatic Biological Resource Center, Institute of Hydrobiology
• National Virus Resource Center, Wuhan Institute of Virology
• China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center, Institute of Microbiology
• Southern China Stem Cell Transformation Bank, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health
• Biobank, Institute of Biophysics
