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Plant diversity information is fundamental for biodiversity research and conservation. To promote the communication and cooperation for plant diversity research, improve our understanding of plants in Asia and beyond, Biodiversity Committee, Chinese Academy of Sciences, organizes the Second International Symposium of Mapping Asia Plants online. The symposium will focus on the status, progress and further priorities of plant diversity research in Asia and Belt and Road Initiative countries. From the distribution of online data resources of global biodiversity, the plant information available in Asia is still limited and scattered. The plant distribution data in Asia accounts for less than 1% in Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), the largest biodiversity data network. Till now, there is no biodiversity database infrastructure at a continental scale in Asia. Although there are certain independent efforts of biodiversity database development in some countries, there is no complete biodiversity database in most Asian countries, which has serious impacts on biodiversity research and protection at a regional scale in Asia. Thus, Mapping Asia Plants (MAP) was initiated in November 2015 by Asia Biodiversity Conservation Database Network (ABCDNet), and was funded by Bureau of International Cooperation and Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Alliance of International Science Organizations (ANSO). MAP’s mission is for a better mapping infrastructure for plant diversity conservation in Asia. It aims to provide a database and standardized workflow for mapping Asia plant species, which makes comprehensive basic information and interdisciplinary data mining for plant diversity conservation and research available.