The symposium will be held from Sep 24^thto Sep 27^that Beijing Friendship Hotel, which locates in the Zhong Guan Cun South Street, Haidian district, Beijing. Registration will begin from Sep. 23^thin the front of Meeting Hall in Beijing Friendship Hotel.

Please make the hotel reservation by yourself as soon as possible, because of the possible shortage of the hotel rooms since lots of meetings will be held right after the Beijing Olympics. Please contact the symposium secretary if you have trouble in booking.

Several hotels are suggested here for your selection. They are near to the Beijing Friendship Hotel and easy to travel to the symposium venue. The locations and contact information of the hotels are listed in Table 1, and the travel routes are shown in Fig 1. (Full map of Beijing: digital map siteor Beijing map site)

Table 1. HOTEL INFORMATION

*Distance to The Conference Venue--Beijing Friendship Hotel

**Currency exchange rate USD:RMB≈1:6.90.(This rate may change at the time of the conference)

Fig 1. Reference Map for the Suggested Hotels