中国科学院兰州化学物理研究所围绕国家目标和科学目标，面向国内外竞争，主要开展资源化学、新材料、化学生物学等领域的基础性创新性研究和战略性前瞻性高技术研究，以西部资源优化为目标。经过不断努力，研究所已成为具有鲜明特色、有影响力的“中国西部资源化学与新材料高新技术创新研究基地”。

　 The international scientific cooperation of the Institute is mainly carried out in the following three aspects: exchange of personnel, academic exchange and scientific cooperative project.

1 .人员交流和学术交流

　 Since 1990, visitors to the Institute are more than 190 and about 228 people of the Institute have gone abroad for various purposes. On average, there are about 20 persons visiting the Institute or going abroad each year. People visiting the Institute come from nearly 20 countries and regions, including America, Japan, Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Russia, Poland, South Korea and Canada. The extensive exchange has greatly promoted the academic communication and cooperation of the Institute with developed countries and regions, enhanced the academic level of the Institute and raised the international position of the Institute.

2科研合作项目

　 During recent years, the Institute has shifted the focus of international scientific cooperation to the cooperation of S&T projects.