NIPD was designated by Ministry of Science and Technology as the Joint International Collaborating Research Center on Tropical Diseases on 2nd November.

The designation will further strengthen the international exchanges tropical diseases and related interdisciplinary, promote problem solving research activities. NIPD will follow the principle of "on the basis of cooperation, and supported by the project" through building joint laboratories to achieve the goal of resource sharing, complementary advantages and win-win cooperation, and thus to make NIPD become the high level of tropical medicine research base, high-level talent of tropical medicine and leading talent training base, become Asias first-class, the international advanced tropical diseases research core institutions, promote the effective prevention and control of tropical diseases.