The "40th Anniversary, Discovery of Chengjiang Biota - International Paleontology Academic Forum" was held this week in Chengjiang, Yuxi, in Yunnan province.
The forum, which kicked off on Tuesday and will run until Saturday marked the unveiling ceremony of the Chengjiang Fossil Site Natural History Museum as a "National First-Class Museum". Experts and young students from Britain, America, South Korea, Switzerland, and many other domestic research institutions, universities, and natural history museums came together to share ideas and boost international research cooperation in the field of paleontology.