Abstract: The contents of capacity building for risk assessment and management of transgenic organisms (RAMTOs) mainly include institutions, mechanisms, expertise, environmental monitoring, collection and exchange of information, ect. Priority for domains, actions and projects must be determined in line with the level, funds, information, and the quantity and quality of professionals in biotechnological research and application. At present, the following activities in capacity building for RAMTOs ought to be launched with urgency: setting up a National Biosafety Commission; formulating RAMTOs related regulations and technical guidelines; establishing a system for RAMTOs and mechanisms for public participation; improving the expertise of the researchers and managers in the fields of ecology, genetics, and risk assessment methodology; working out a program for monitoring the environment of transgenic organisms; building up networks and bases for monitoring; developing a new group of databases and information bases on biosafety. 

Key words: capacity building, risk assessment, risk management, transgenic organisms