A group of Chinese and Frenchexperts attending a symposium on human cloning Tuesday called on the international community to promulgate an international convention to ban human cloning as soon as possible.

　　"The situation of the human being is critical, as human cloningis doomed to happen due to the development of science and technology," said Prof. Xu Zongliang, an expert from the southern research center of China's national team on the study of human genome, at the symposium "Human Cloning: Law and Society."

　　Without a powerful international restriction, it is too difficult to prevent some business people or scientists from carrying out human cloning, the Chinese expert noted.

　　Other speakers, including a professor from France, supported Xu's view, calling for an international code of ethics in the field.

　　 Shanghai-based Fudan University and the First University of Paris in France have launched a three-year joint study on law and society concerning human cloning.

　　Over 30 Chinese and French experts attended the symposium.