A passage to China: the Institute of Naval Medicine's visit to the Peoples Liberation Army Naval Medical Research Institute.

In late 2007, a delegation from the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army Navy visited the Defence Medical Services which incorporated a short visit to the Institute of Naval Medicine. Subsequent to this, staff talks between First Sea Lord and Admiral Wu, the Chinese Navy Chief of Staff, identified naval medicine as one of four potential areas of co-operation between the two Navies. The Institute of Naval Medicine was approached in October 2008 regarding the possibility of taking a small team to China on a working level visit to the Chinese Naval Medical Research Institute in Shanghai before the end of the year. The initial response that it would be a very small team was assuaged by the offer of funding from the Centre, which lead to a team of four from the Institute flying to Shanghai in early December for perhaps the first working level visit by any UK Royal Navy delegation General