NIGPAS Delegation led by Deputy Director Prof. ZHAN Renbin was invited by Prof. Mike Stephenson, Director of Science and Technology, BGS, to visit the headquarter of BGS at Keyworth, Nottingham, England in November 2017. NIGPAS and BGS had a deep discussion on the future cooperation on database construction, academic exchange, joint symposium, post-graduate education, etc. The GBDB leader, Prof. FAN Junxuan was invited to give a lecture to British colleagues, on the topic of “Introducing the Geobiodiversity Database, an expanding open data system for geological information”.