Editing Hefei (section)

==Research==
Hefei plays an important role in scientific research in China. It has seven national laboratories, second only to Beijing: The National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory ({{zh|s=国家同步辐射实验室|hp=Guójiā tóngbù fúshè shíyàn shì|links=no}}), the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale ({{zh|s=微尺度物质科学国家实验室|hp=Wēi chǐdù wùzhí kēxué guójiā shíyàn shì|links=no}}), both of which are under the [[University of Science and Technology of China]]. It also has the [[Institute of Solid State Physics (China)|Institute of Solid State Physics]], Institute of Plasma Physics, Institute of Intelligent Machines, High Magnetic Field Laboratory (founded in 2008), Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, all of which are under the [[Hefei Institutes of Physical Science]] which belongs to the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]].

Hefei is the location of [[Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak]], an experimental [[superconducting]] [[tokamak]] [[magnetic fusion energy]] reactor.

The No. 105 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army, located in Hefei, is reportedly the site of the first human trials using [[CRISPR]] [[genome editing]], doing so in 2015.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-unhampered-by-rules-races-ahead-in-gene-editing-trials-1516562360 |newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |quote=Later in 2016, news reports said a Chinese hospital had begun the world’s first Crispr trial. In fact, it wasn’t first—No. 105 Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army in Hefei began testing Crispr on patients in 2015, says Liu Bo, who leads that trial. |title=China, Unhampered by Rules, Races Ahead in Gene-Editing Trials |date=21 January 2018 |first1=Preetika |last1=Rana |first2=Amy Dockser |last2=Marcus |first3=Wenxin |last3=Fan |access-date=11 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407012214/https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-unhampered-by-rules-races-ahead-in-gene-editing-trials-1516562360 |archive-date=7 April 2018 |url-status=live  }}</ref>

As of 2017, Hefei had 60 universities and more than 564 research institutes.<ref name=":02" />{{Rp|page=126}}

Hefei is a world leading city for scientific research, with its ranking placed at 13th globally, 8th in the Asia-Pacific and 6th in China (behind [[Beijing]], [[Shanghai]], [[Nanjing]], [[Guangzhou]] and [[Wuhan]]), as tracked by the [[Nature Index]] in 2023.<ref name=":0" />

Hefei was one of the four national science centers identified in China's [[Fourteenth five-year plan (China)|14th Five-Year Plan]].<ref name=":02" />{{Rp|page=126}}