The preparation of CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment approved in September 2017 has just passed the assessment and evaluation by CAS in December 2020. It is based on both the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS (IVPP) and the NIGPAS.

With China’s domestic unique geological and palaeontological resources, and various advanced technologies, the Center focuses on the interdisciplinary frontiers in palaeontology, stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment, striving for the understanding more deeply on the origin, radiation, extinction and recovery of the key taxa, groups and faunas/floras, on the basis of high-resolution stratigraphic subdivision and correlation, and on the mechanism of the co-evolution between life and environment.