The 2017 Metabolic Engineering Conference will be held in Beijing, China. In recent years metabolic engineering has grown rapidly in China and to further stimulate this growth the International Metabolic Engineering Society (IMES) decided to arrange a Metabolic Engineering Summit (ME Summit) in China on Oct. 22-24, 2017 in Zhongjia Xinyuan Hot-spring Hotel, Beijing. We are honored to host this event and look forward to welcoming our friends and colleagues from all over the world.