Supported by the Institute of Geology, CAGS, the lab adheres to the following research directions: deep continental scientific drilling (dynamics of plate convergence boundaries and modern crustal processes), huge ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic belts and N-S-convergence of continental plates, terrain amalgamation and collision dynamics of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

In 2013, 25 scientific papers were published with this laboratory or its correspondent as the first author and 6 of them were indexed by SCI.