The Laboratory was the precursor of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Science, which took its modern form after 1949.
Taj je laboratorij bio prethodnik Instituta za paleontologiju kralježnjaka i paleoantropologiju (IVPP) Kineske akademije znanosti, koja u svom modernom obliku postoji od 1949. godine.