China National Convention Centre (Congress Venue)

China National Convention Centre (CNCC) boasts the prime location with beautiful surroundings, perfect equipments and convenient transportation facilities. Sitting in the heart of Beijing Olympic Green, CNCC is right next to the Bird's Nest (China National Stadium) and the Water Cube (the National Aquatics Centre), while it is just 30-minute driving to the airport and the subway station at CNCC enabling people to go to city centre or the airport quickly and conveniently. Tian'anmen Square and the Summer Palace are just south 9km and west 10km away respectively. To its north are two of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites inscribed in 1987 and 2000 respectively, the Great Wall and Imperial Tombs of the Ming & Qing Dynasties.

In addition, within a 1km radius, there are three 5-star hotels, eight 4-star hotels, including China National Convention Centre Grand Hotel (CNCC Grand Hotel) adjacent to CNCC, and more than 10 3-star hotels and apartments, totaling over 5,000 rooms.

Besides its convenient location, as China's largest and newest international conference venue, CNCC is equipped with nearly 100 meeting rooms of various sizes and a 24,000 square meters exhibition hall, which can be flexibly divided into 4 self-contained and acoustically independent sections, 6,000 square meters each. The plenary hall can accommodate up to 6,000 delegates and the ballroom can cater up to 3,500 pax banquets.

Proudly with world-class advanced facilities and sound functions, CNCC is absolutely China's most versatile conference and exhibition venue ideal for congresses, international meetings, exhibitions and corporate annual meetings.

References:
The China National Convention Centre (CNCC)
http://en.cnccchina.com/

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Heritage
http://whc.unesco.org/en/about/

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Subspecialty

Convener

Secretary (from APAO Central)

International
Coordinator

Asia
Coordinator

Pacific Region
Coordinator

Host
Coordinator

1

Cataract

David Chang

Philip Lam

Richard Packard

Abhay Vasavada

Tim Roberts

Ke Yao

2

Cornea and External Eye Disease

Shigeru Kinoshita

Alvin Young

Michael Belin

Donald Tan

Gerard Sutton

Lixin Xie

3

Robert Ritch

Clement Tham

Jost Jonas

Makoto Araie

Paul Healey

Jian Ge

4

Intraocular Inflammation, Uveitis & Scleritis

Narsing Rao

Timothy Lai

Susan Lightman

Shigeaki Ohno

Sam Lertsumitkul

Peizeng Yang

5

Laboratory Eye Research

Vincent Raymond

Calvin Pang

Terete Borras

Susumu Ishida

Mark Gillies

Zhengqin Yin

6

Neuro-ophthalmology

Neil Miller

Carmen Chan

Andrew Lee

Navin Jayakumar

Helen Danesh-Meyer

Shihui Wei

7

Ocular Imaging

Charles McGhee

Christopher Leung

Neeru Gupta

Tin Aung

Dipika Patel

Ningli Wang

8

Ocular Microbiology and Ocular Infectious Diseases

Terrence O'Brien

Ben Lam

David Hwang

Srinivas Rao

invitation extended, pending for confirmation

Xuguang Sun

9

Ocular Pathology & Tumors

Jerry Shields

David Liu

Tero Kivela

Santosh Honavar

Sehu Weng

Wei Wang

10

Ophthalmic Education

Mark Tso

Nancy Yuen

Eduardo Mayorga Arganaraz

Gondhowiardjo Tjahjono

Peter McCluskey

Mingwei Zhao

11

Ophthalmic Epidemiology

Tien Wong

Nathan Congdon

Paul Foster

Hidetoshi Yamashita

Paul Mitchell

Jialiang Zhao

12

Orbits and Oculoplastics

David Tse

Hunter Yuen

Michael Grant

Yoon-Duck Kim

Tim Sullivan

Xianqun Fan

13

Pediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus

Frank Martin

Dorothy Fan

Marilyn Miller

May May Choo

Craig Donaldson

Kanxing Zhao

14

Prevention of Blindness

Ramachandra Pararajasegaram

Dennis Lam

Mohamed Babar Qureshi

Akira Murakami

Garry Brian

Youxin Chen

15

Refractive Surgery

Ronald Krueger

Vishal Jhanji

Michael Knorz

Kazuo Tsubota

Michael Lawless

Jia Qu

16

Retina (Medical)

Ian Constable

Timothy Lai

Alexander Brucker

Taraprasad Das

Diane Sharp

Xiaoxin Li

17

Retina (Surgical)

Zdenek Gregor

Vincent Lee

Stanley Chang

Chi Chung Lai

Andrew Chang

Zhizhong Ma

18

Miscellaneous

Dennis Lam / Xiaoxin Li / Charles McGhee / Clement Tham

Calendar of Major Meetings Worldwide (Sept 2009 - Sept 2010)

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