www.nsii.org.cn

　　NSII is the biggest biodiversity information sharing platform in China, funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. It brings information together including catalogues, documents, pictures and other digital information of plant specimens, animal specimens, fossil, rock specimens, and polar resources etc. It was built in 2003 and officially launched in 2013. Led by the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, it consists of 6 sub-platforms: plant specimens, animal specimens, teaching specimens, nature reserve specimens, rock specimens and polar specimens. NSII has 204 data providers, including insitutions from CAS, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Natural Resources, State Oceanic Administration, National Forestry and Grassland Administration and so on.

　　In 2019, 989,593 digitalized specimens and 691,943 new digitalized images were added to NSII. By end of 2019, it had a total of 15.13 million specimens, including 10.92 million plant specimens, 3.99 million animal specimens, 0.21 million rock specimens, 4,830 specimens of polar resources, 12.67 million images and 0.10 million records of literatures and 2,884 video clips.