China is the Asian country, besides Japan, listed among the main Human Genome Project sequencing countries.
The HGP was an international effort launched in 1990 and formally completed in 2003. Although the United States and United Kingdom carried much of the work, sequencing centers in Japan, France, Germany, and China also contributed through the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium. China’s Beijing Genomics Institute was one of the listed participating centers.
The project aimed to map and sequence the human genome, which contains roughly three billion DNA base pairs. Its first major draft was announced in 2000 and published in 2001, while the publicly funded project declared its sequence essentially complete in 2003. The original project did not resolve every repetitive region; later work filled many of those gaps.
A common mix-up is treating every country with modern genomics research as an HGP sequencing country. The question refers specifically to the principal countries named in the project’s historical sequencing consortium, where China—not Singapore, South Korea, or India—is the listed answer.