From July 13 to 14, Rongyu Li, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Queensland, and Alan Rowan, an academician of the Australian Academy of Sciences and a professor at the University of Queensland, visited Beijing Normal University(BNU).

On the afternoon of July 14, Chen Xing, Vice President of BNU, met with the guests. Both sides exchanged views on the progress of related work since the first visit of the University of Queensland in April this year, and had an in-depth discussion with Rongyu Li on matters such as cooperative research on aging health and cooperative education between the two universities.

On the same day, the guests visited the Brain Imaging Center of BNU. Alan Rowan was invited to give a lecture titled "Institute of Aging Health: The Cooperation Model between China and the University of Queensland" at the Faculty of Psychology.

The University of Queensland was founded in 1909 and is located in Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia. It is a public comprehensive research university in Australia and one of the oldest and largest institutions of higher learning in the country. The University offers a wide range of courses, covering business, law, architecture, engineering, information technology, nursing, pharmacy, education, communication, medicine, public health, biology, chemistry and other fields. The school has strong research capabilities and is the birthplace of many important research achievements such as HPV vaccines and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).