During November 26-29 2012,the 10th International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics was held at Lotus Hotel PANG SUAN KAEW of the beautiful city Chiang Mai, Thailand. Prof. Bin Han was invited to give keynote talk about next generation sequencing on Tuesday, 27 Nov. The title of the talk of Prof. Bin Han was "A comprehensive map of rice genome variation from large population-scale genome sequencing: Next generation sequencing".