On Nov. 13, 2015, an academic cooperation agreement between NIGPAS and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) were signed by both sides to exchange academic staff and to foster academic cooperation. As the program representatives, Prof. YANG Qun from NIGPAS and Prof. Gert Worheide from LMU have organized series Sino-German palaeontological cooperation in past years.