China has worked out a win-win collaboration pattern with foreign scientists in studying earlier earth life, and is becoming a global focus in the field, affirmed both Chinese and foreign scientists who attended the Fourth International Symposium on the Cambrian System that was closed not long ago in Nanjing.

SHU Degan, Director of the Institute of Earlier Life, part of China Northwestern University, told reporters that overseas scientists started the study earlier than China did, with the support of state-of-the-art facilities. What China possesses is a team of outstanding scholars with a unique fossil resource. The cooperation between Chinese and overseas scientists, therefore, makes both sides obtain more findings. In the last decade or so, SHU, who has published a dozen of academic papers in the journals of Nature and Science, has forged cooperation ties with scientists from diverse countries, including the UK, France, Germany, and Japan.