From the beginning of 2015, ZIA started to operate joint research programmes with the National School of Administration (SNA) and the University of West Australia (UWA) respectively. There are two areas of cooperative research between ZIA and SNA. One is about how to deepen cooperation between Zhejiang Province and West Australia, and the other is about how to promote governance ability. ZIA and UWA jointly study the economic and trade cooperation between China and Italy.