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The state key laboratory of coal resources and safe mining has established long-term scientific cooperation, and steady talents exchange and mutual visits with the US, Canada, Poland, German, France, Denmark, Australia, UK, Japan, Russia, Holland, etc. The laboratory and Sofia University, Bulgaria have established the cooperative relationship and jointly succeeded in applying an inter-governmental scientific cooperative project. The laboratory has taken part in the construction of the Sino-German Joint Center for Energy Research. The laboratory and the Poland Institute of Mining Research have maintained a long-term good cooperative relationship, and are currently cooperating in building the China-Poland research center of science and technology. The laboratory has established a long-term cooperative relationship with UC Berkeley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, State University of Montana in the US, University of British Columbia, University of Calgary in Canada, and taken part in the cooperative research of the 973 project, National Science Foundation (NSF) program of the US, and China-US-Canada joint program. The laboratory and UK Nottingham University have signed the agreements on joint supervision for post graduates and the frontier research in rock and soil mechanics. The laboratory has established the cooperative relationship for scientific research with Toronto University and British Columbia University in Canada, and established the joint supervision plan for post graduates with Tehran University in Iran.