The research landscape in China is changing very quickly. New research trends and initiatives have emerged in the recent years demonstrated in recent domestic and international funding calls. At the same time, UNNC colleagues has shown interests and demonstrated expertise in these following fields. IAPS China hence has launched the following research priority areas to create a collaboration platform across three faculties for research synergies, and enable immediate formation of research teams to respond quickly to these research funding calls. These research priority areas are: