Under the vision of the national “The Belt and Road” initiative, Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai city started to promote a series of International Collaborative Laboratory in the name of “Science and Technology Innovation Action Plan” and “One Belt and One Road” since 2017. In order to promote the anthropological studies across Eurasia and theinternational grand science plan of human phenome project, Fudan University summoned the forces of MOE Ley Lab of Contemporary Anthropology, MOST International Cooperation Base of Contemporary Anthropology, and National Key Lab of Genetic Engineering and applied for the establishment of B&R International Joint Laboratory for Eurasian Anthropology (“B&R-LEA” hereafter). The application was approved recently.