On August 26, 2011, Prof. MA Haizhou, director of Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, visited ITP’s Lhasa campus, welcomed by Dr. LIU Qiang, deputy head of the Lhasa campus.

Being introduced of the operation of the campus, and running equipment and facilities on the campus, Prof. Ma expressed willingness to strengthen cooperation with ITP. He hoped that ITP's Lhasa campus will act as an attractive research platform to more academic talents, so as to serve for regional sustainable development of Tibet with relevant academic research.