It will be a great pleasure for us to welcome you to Wuhan, China, for the 13th International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics (ISRFG 13th) on September 21th to 24th, 2015, the yearly international symposium with the theme “Rice Genome and Technology: Feeding the Billions”. September 21th is arranged for registration and the symposium begins on September 22th. We hope that you will enjoy the scientific topics covering recent breakthroughs in rice functional genomics, genome biology, stress biology, evolutionary biology, and new genomics tools. The symposium will also focus on the impact of the rice genome on agriculture, to address the issue that “Using Rice Genomics to Help Solve the 9-billion People Question”. We would like to thank you all for attending this conference and look forward to the free-thinking and lively exchange of ideas from different fields.