Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has been attaching great importance to the academic exchange and cooperation with international science and technology communities since its establishment in 1959. It has built up nice relationships with many botanic gardens, universities, research institutions and foundations in the world on seed exchange, scientific information exchange, research project cooperation, personnel training, help with establishing botanic gardens in south-east Asian countries etc., and has signed more than 20 cooperative agreements on various kinds of cooperative activities on mutually interested issues with many different countries. XTBG also pays much attention to the development of strategic relationships with developing countries, especially with south-east Asian countries such as Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos on help with establishing botanic gardens and training of technicians. To provide a good chance for the researchers and officials from Southeast Asian countries to communicate and discuss issues of biodiversity management, XTBG has successfully organized and held several international workshops such as “International Workshop on the China-Laos Trans-boundary Biodiversity Management and Development” and “International Symposium on Biodiversity Management and Sustainable Development in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin”. 
     In order to achieve its mission of building one of the top-level botanic gardens in the world, XTBG has been actively developing various kinds of collaborations with universities, botanic gardens and research organizations in developed countries, such as scientific information exchange, exchange visit, joint investigation, joint laboratories, cooperative research, inviting foreign experts as advisors, and holding international workshops. XTBG has invited 9 foreign experts and scholars as its honorary professors, such as Prof.Sir Peter Crane FRS, a famous botanist and Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, Dr. W. John Kress, systematic biologist, research scientist and curator at the Smithsonian Institution, USA, Prof. Theodore H. Fleming, a famous biologist at the Universtiy of Miami, and Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson, Secretary General of Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI).
    Some international workshops and symposiums such as “Workshop on Seed Dispersal and Frugivory in Asia” and “International Conference on Botanic Gardens and Sustainable Development” have successfully been organized and held at XTBG. XTBG will strive and work hard to promote its work in scientific research, species conservation and landscaping to a higher level.