On the afternoon of March 14, 2018, Dr. Rachel Jordan, representative of the University of Birmingham in UK, Professor Kong Xia and Professor Pan Zihan, representatives of Peking University, visited the SKLRD to exchange experience on epidemiology with the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease team. A delegation of Academician Zhong Nanshan, Professor Zheng Jingping, and Professor Zhao Jincun also attended the exchange meeting.

Both sides introduced the construction and planning of their respective platforms and the main work done, discussed the common problems faced by the world today in the field of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease diagnosis, treatment and prevention and learned from each other and raised the directions for the clinical test research in the future. In their exchange, the visiting representatives reached an initial cooperation consensus with us on the early diagnosis research of COPD.