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Editorial Board: Hunter Yuen (Editor-in-Chief); Vincent Lee; Emmy Li
Advisory Board: Dennis Lam; Xiaoxin Li; Frank Martin; Charles McGhee; David W. Parke II; Clement Tham |
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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.
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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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Scientific Program Committee (as of Aug 26, 2009)
Chair: Dennis Lam
Co-Chairs: Xiaoxin Li / Charles McGhee
Senior Secretary: Clement Tham
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Subspecialty |
Convener |
Secretary (from APAO Central) |
International
Coordinator |
Asia
Coordinator |
Pacific Region
Coordinator |
Host
Coordinator |
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1 |
Cataract |
David Chang |
Philip Lam |
Richard Packard |
Abhay Vasavada |
Tim Roberts |
Ke Yao |
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2 |
Cornea and External Eye Disease |
Shigeru Kinoshita |
Alvin Young |
Michael Belin |
Donald Tan |
Gerard Sutton |
Lixin Xie |
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3 |
Glaucoma |
Robert Ritch |
Clement Tham |
Jost Jonas |
Makoto Araie |
Paul Healey |
Jian Ge |
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4 |
Intraocular Inflammation, Uveitis & Scleritis |
Narsing Rao |
Timothy Lai |
Susan Lightman |
Shigeaki Ohno |
Sam Lertsumitkul |
Peizeng Yang |
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5 |
Laboratory Eye Research |
Vincent Raymond |
Calvin Pang |
Terete Borras |
Susumu Ishida |
Mark Gillies |
Zhengqin Yin |
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6 |
Neuro-ophthalmology |
Neil Miller |
Carmen Chan |
Andrew Lee |
Navin Jayakumar |
Helen Danesh-Meyer |
Shihui Wei |
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Ocular Imaging |
Charles McGhee |
Christopher Leung |
Neeru Gupta |
Tin Aung |
Dipika Patel |
Ningli Wang |
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8 |
Ocular Microbiology and Ocular Infectious Diseases |
Terrence O'Brien |
Ben Lam |
David Hwang |
Srinivas Rao |
invitation extended, pending for confirmation |
Xuguang Sun |
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9 |
Ocular Pathology & Tumors |
Jerry Shields |
David Liu |
Tero Kivela |
Santosh Honavar |
Sehu Weng |
Wei Wang |
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10 |
Ophthalmic Education |
Mark Tso |
Nancy Yuen |
Eduardo Mayorga Arganaraz |
Gondhowiardjo Tjahjono |
Peter McCluskey |
Mingwei Zhao |
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11 |
Ophthalmic Epidemiology |
Tien Wong |
Nathan Congdon |
Paul Foster |
Hidetoshi Yamashita |
Paul Mitchell |
Jialiang Zhao |
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12 |
Orbits and Oculoplastics |
David Tse |
Hunter Yuen |
Michael Grant |
Yoon-Duck Kim |
Tim Sullivan |
Xianqun Fan |
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13 |
Pediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus |
Frank Martin |
Dorothy Fan |
Marilyn Miller |
May May Choo |
Craig Donaldson |
Kanxing Zhao |
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14 |
Prevention of Blindness |
Ramachandra Pararajasegaram |
Dennis Lam |
Mohamed Babar Qureshi |
Akira Murakami |
Garry Brian |
Youxin Chen |
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Refractive Surgery |
Ronald Krueger |
Vishal Jhanji |
Michael Knorz |
Kazuo Tsubota |
Michael Lawless |
Jia Qu |
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Retina (Medical) |
Ian Constable |
Timothy Lai |
Alexander Brucker |
Taraprasad Das |
Diane Sharp |
Xiaoxin Li |
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Retina (Surgical) |
Zdenek Gregor |
Vincent Lee |
Stanley Chang |
Chi Chung Lai |
Andrew Chang |
Zhizhong Ma |
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Miscellaneous |
Dennis Lam / Xiaoxin Li / Charles McGhee / Clement Tham |
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History of China
Besides Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley Civilization, the Mayan Civilization, the Minoan Civilization of Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt, Chinese Civilization was one of the few to invent writing, while Ancient China was one of the earliest centres of human civilization. China also has the longest continuous culture surviving from ancient times with a recorded history of nearly 4000 years.
Over past thousands of years, China has developed unique and valuable cultures, religion, languages, sports and recreation, science and technology as well as arts and literature. The 4 most important and famous inventions of Ancient China (ie. paper, printing, needle compass and gunpowder) not only improved living standard of Chinese people, but were also great contributions to human civilization.
In addition, China was one of the countries where economic activity first developed. As early as 5000 to 6000 years ago, people in the Yellow River valley had already started farming and raising livestock. The first dynasty of China is Xia, which was considered mythical until scientific excavations found early bronze-age sites at Erlitou in Henan Province in 1959. Followed by Xia Dynasty, there were tens of dynasties and kingdoms in the country including Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, whose capital was Beijing.
4 most important and famous inventions of Ancient China:
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Printing |
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Source: Hong Kong Post Office http://www.hongkongpost.com
Reference
History@eBeijing, the official website of the Beijing Government
http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/BeijingInfo/BJInfoTips/BeijingHistory/t934761.htm
China@Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China
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Calendar of Major Meetings Worldwide (Sept 2009 - Sept 2010)
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Sept 9-12, 2009 |
The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) International Society for Ocular Cell Biology |
Ericeira, Portugal |
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Sept 12-16, 2009 |
27th European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) Annual Meeting 2009
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Barcelona, Spain |
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Sept 24-27, 2009
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107th DOG Congress |
Leipzig, Germany |
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Sept 30-Oct 3, 2009 |
2009 Annual Congress of European Association for Vision and Eye Research (EVER)
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Portoroz, Slovenia |
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Oct 9-12, 2009 |
63th Annual Congress of Japan Clinical Ophthalmology
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Fukuoka, Japan |
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Oct 24-27, 2009 |
Joint Meeting of the 29th Pan-American Congress of Ophthalmology and the 113th Annual Meeting of the Amercian Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) |
San Francisco, California, USA |
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Nov 6-8, 2009 |
102th Annual Meeting of Korean Ophthalmological Society
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Goyang, South Korea |
| 8 |
Nov 13-15, 2009 |
4th Congress of Asia-Pacific VitreoRetinal Society (APVRS)
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Taipei, Chinese Taipei |
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Nov 14-18, 2009 |
2009 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO) Annual General Meeting and Scientific Congress
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Brisbane, Queensland |
| 10 |
Nov 25-28, 2009 |
Philippine Academy of Ophthalmology (PAO) Annual Meeting
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Metro Manila, Philippines |
| 11 |
Jan 21-24, 2010 |
AIOC 2010: Joint Meeting of the 68th AIOS Annual Conference & 15th Afro-Asian Congress of Ophthalmology |
Kolkata, India |
| 12 |
Feb 11-15, 2010 |
American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) Winter Update 2010
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Riviera Maya, Mexico |
| 13 |
Feb 12-14, 2010 |
14th ESCRS Winter Meeting in conjunction with the Hungarian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (SHIOL) |
Budapest, Hungary |
| 14 |
Apr 9-14, 2010 |
American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) / American Society of Ophthalmic Adminstrators (ASOA) Symposium and Congress |
Boston, USA |
| 15 |
May 2-6, 2010 |
The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting 2010
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Florida, USA |
| 16 |
Jun 5-9, 2010 |
The 32nd World Ophthalmology Congress (WOC) 2010
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Berlin, Germany |
| 17 |
Jul 23-26, 2010 |
12th National Congress and 35th Annual Scientific Meeting of Indonesian Ophthalmologist Association (IOA) |
Semarang, Indonesia |
| 18 |
Sept 4-8, 2010 |
28th European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) Annual Meeting 2009
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Paris, France |
| 19 |
Sept 16-20, 2010 |
25th Congress of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology in combination with the 15th National Congress of the Chinese Ophthalmological Society |
Beijing, China |
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