IAE has established wide collaborative relations with international academic communities. Since 1980s, IAE has conducted collaborative research, scientific visit, Inter-appointment, lectures, international workshops with universities, research institutions, international organizations and scholars from America, Russia, Rumania, Australia, Netherlands, Japan, France, Canada, German, Korea, Taiwan, etc. These multiple international collaboration and exchange advance the scientific research, human resource development, and international information exchange.

In recent years, IAE has gone through the simple academic exchange and visits and developed concrete scientific collaborative research projects, with universities and research institute from many countries like America, Japan, Australia, Canada, France, Netherlands, Korea, etc. IAE obtains support from more than ten international foundations and institutions, and established long-term stable collaboration with 7 affiliated international agricultural research centers of CGIAR. With the deepen of foreign exchange, IAE hired prestigious foreign scholars as visiting professor or part-time researcher. In the meantime, a few young scholars of IAE act as visiting professors and expert consultant at international institutions.

    Currently,  the number of scholars invited to IAE for visit, collaborative research and science exchange exceeds 50 person- time per year, while  the number of IAE scholars go abroad to attend international conference, science exchange and collaborative research reaches 40 person-time each year. International collaboration and exchange widens  IAE international collaborative field, improves  scientific research and development of IAE, and plays an increasingly important role in cultivating young researchers and boosting up scientech capability.

Prof. Zhu Xigang, Prof. Wang Sangui and associate Prof. Zhang Lubiao  signed collaboration agreement with Rural Economics Institute, Korea, May, 1999 

Workshop on "Sino-Korea Agricultural Development in the 21st Century" co- held by IAE and Rural Economics Institute,  in Beijing  Oct. 2000