In order to detect infectious disease outbreaks in time and provide timely, accurate laboratory test results on which the prevention, control and treatment of infectious diseases rely, Beijing Municipal Health Bureau established the "Beijing Infectious Disease Laboratory Fellowship" on the base of a Bird Flu lab network and SARS lab network. This fellowship is composed of 53 members and integrates first-class test and expert resources from the central government, army, local government, universities and companies, aiming at providing reliable lab test results of legally-defined diseases, imported infectious diseases, emerging infectious diseases and diseases of uncertain etiology. To ensure the completion of task, all members of the BIDLF have been under a "state of emergency response" since July 20. Every member laboratory has been required to: prepare basic testing facilities and equipment and keep them working well; store plenty of test reagents and biological safety protection articles to meet the needs of tests and biological safety protection; ensure testers stay at their posts and are highly skilled; make sure the communication access at laboratories is always available; make sure emergency tests at laboratories are conducted timely, efficiently, and accurately.

 From July 23 to July 24, 2008, the BMHB held two training courses concerning infectious disease lab network to ensure that the Lab Fellowship can fulfill its task during the Olympics. One hundred and thirty trainees, consisting of directors, liaison staff and technical elites from BIDLF member institutions, participated in the course. Through training and seminars, member institutions deepened their understanding of the BIDLF program, especially its working mode of "combining both routine work and emergency disease control" and its operating mechanism of “starting-up at different levels, managing at different districts, allocating responsibilities according to disease categories". This stimulates the construction of BIDLF and BIDLF's preparation for the Olympics.