On 31 Mar. 2015, Longfei Hu, Deputy Director of Shenzhen Entry-exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau of the People’s Republic of China (SZCIQ), Congxian Xie，Director of Shenzhen International Travel Healthcare Center, and Jialong Ren, Director of Hubei International Travel Healthcare Center, led a delegation to visit WIV and engage with communicative activities on practical investigation. Gengfu Xiao, Deputy Director of WIV, CAS, accompanied by the heads of research and development management and some related academic leaders, warmly received those visiting experts.

First the experts visited Zhengdian Park of WIV, CAS to gain insight into some basic conditions of construction background, design concept and functional orientation on National Biosafety Laboratory in Wuhan, CAS. At the following seminar, Prof. Xiao briefed WIV’s general condition, historical development, disciplines distribution and international cooperation situations depending on the high-containment biosafety laboratory, including research on prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases, construction system of management of biosafety and personal training.

On the seminar, as the authorized representatives of WIV and SZCIQ respectively, Prof. Xiao and Director Hu reached a comprehensive cooperation agreement, marking a full range of partnerships between both sides on construction of high-containment biosafety laboratory, prevention and control of emerging and unusual pathogens and coordination on customs clearance of reagents and materials. In the above fields, SZCIQ and WIV will develop cooperation on technology research and development, construction of science innovation stage, exchanges and trainings of talents and sharing of resources and information, so as to achieve the advantage compensation and common development, and ultimately to deal with public health and security events at ports effectively and to play an important role in supporting the national biosafety.