China is the biggest consumer of soybean production, but mainly depends on import. Moreover, the import dependence is continuing to increase. The soybean production in China largely lag behind that of the main foreign soybean producing countries. Accelerating yield via molecular design breeding innovation system is the key to solve the soybean crisis in China. In 2017, Chinese scientists cloned a number of important genes that related to soybean growth period, yield and quality, and made important progress in dissection of the genetic network underlying multiple agronomical traits.