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General Information

The biannual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) Consortium will be held in Beijing, the capital of China, 22~25 AUG 2000.

APAN is a non-profit international consortium established on 3 June 1997. APAN is intended to be a high-performance network for research and development on advanced applications and services.  APAN provides advanced networking environment for research community, and promotes international collaboration.

The biannual meeting of APAN offers the community a very good chance to come together and make further progress.

For this conference, there will be a tutorial sessions for Chinese people, a two-day's sessions on network technology and applications and three-day's APAN WG sessions. These are parallel.  And the Technology Area Meeting and User Committee Meeting and APAN Committee Meeting will be allocated on Aug. 25, as appropriate, maybe Aug. 26. 

Topics may focus on network technologies(like Ethernet,TransPAC, Web, Performance,IPv6, and so on), and network applications(like Agriculture, Distance Education, Digital Library, Multimedia, Vedio Tools, Bioinformatics, Measurement, Engineering, and so on).

We would like to arrange a series of activities for your pleasant stay in Beijing. These includes a reception scheduled  for the evening of Tuesday, Aug 22, a banquet, and a post-conference tour to the Great Wall, if more people interested in. And if possible, we try to arrange a free city tour of Beijing.

Any updates will also be shown on this page.

About Beijing

Beijing, also known as Peking, capital city of the People's Republic of China,with a
population of 12 million.To many foreign visitors, Beijing is an enormous treasure house of cultural and historical relics, stocked with various collections of palaces, temples, parks and above all, one of the seven wonders of the world, the Great Wall. It is a mysterious land with a striking contrast between the numerous traces of old tradition and the modern metropolitan life.

Beijing is located in the southern part of the North China Plain, encircled by Hebei
Province. The city center is situated at Latitude 39"6'N and Longitude 116"20'E.

The city center is 43.7 meters above sea level. The climate of Beijing is seasonal, with hot summers and cold winters.

Weather

Days are generally sunny. Temperatures range between 25 and 32 C (77 to 90 F) during the day and about 20 C (68 F) in the evening.

More about Beijing.

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