On November 28, 2016, the International Training Workshop on Strengthening Science Capacities for Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction kicked off on RADI Sanya Campus. The training workshop was organized by SDIM jointly with the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), International Society of Digital Earth (ISDE), and ICSU World Data System (WDS).

Under the framework of DBAR, the workshop focused on disaster risk reduction in developing countries along the Belt and Road, with an aim to improve the research capacity of young scholars and professionals. 20 participants from 15 developing countries including Bangladesh, Myanmar, Pakistan, Thailand, Mongolia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, India and Morocco attended the workshop.