TRAVEL INFORMATION

1. Passport and Visa

A valid passport and a visa are required for entry into China. Visas can be obtained from your local Chinese Embassy or the nearest Consulate General. An official visa invitation letter will be sent to the participants by CICCST upon receipt of the registration form.

2. Insurance

It is advisable that participants take out adequate travel and health insurance before leaving their respective countries.

3. Weather

Beijing enjoys mild and sunny weather in October. The temperature is usually in the range of 10 ℃ (midnight) to 22 ℃ (noon). There is not much rain.

4. Currency and Banking

Foreign currencies in cash or traveler’s checks can be changed into Chinese yuan at the airport, banks and hotel. The exchange rate for US dollars is approximately US$ 1.00 for CNY 7.50 yuan.

Banks usually open at 9:00 am and closed at 5:00 pm everyday of the week. Credit cards such as American Express, Diners Club, JCB, Master Card and Visa may be used for payments at hotels and tourist stores.

When visitors leave China, they can change the remaining amount of Chinese yuan back into foreign cash at the airport prior to their departure from China. But if they wish to do so, they have to show foreign currency conversion receipts.

5. Arrival

The airport shuttle bus is available for the participants from BeijingAirport to Friendship Hotel. The bus ticket is about US$10 per person, payable on the bus. Taxis are always available at the Airport. Taxi fares to the hotel will be about CNY110-130 (or about US$15).The notes below may help you in taking a taxi to the hotel.

Please take me toBuilding No. 2 of Beijing Friendship Hotel

请送我到北京友谊宾馆

□No. 1 :贵宾楼□No. 2:2号楼（南配楼）

□No. 4 :4号楼□No. 3:3号楼（北配楼）

Guide to Beijing Friendship Hotel

ACCOMMODATION

Hotel

Participants will stay in Building No. 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the Friendship Hotel.

The Friendship Hotel, neighboring the famous scenic spot - the Summer Palace， was built in 1954. It is one of the largest garden-style hotels in Asia with a style of classic elegance. The hotel buildings with traditional features are neatly arranged into an elegant harmonious courtyard. The courtyard is neat, spacious and attractive.

The hotel has meeting rooms in different sizes, function halls and a large lecture hall with the facilities of simultaneous translation into 5 languages. Conventions and entertainments can be arranged.

Hotel Add. :1 Zhongguancun Nandajie, Beijing 100873, China.

Tel: 0086-10-68498888, Fax: 0086-10-68498866

Website：http://www.bjfriendshiphotel.com/

Hotel rates

During the conference, all participants will stay and have their meals inNo. 1, 2,3 and 4 Building of the Friendship Hotel.

Room Rate:a Standard Room

Hotel Reservation

CICCST has reserved a number of rooms at advantageous rates in the hotel for the

participants. Room reservation may be made by completed the Registration Form before Aug. 31, 2007. A deposit of CNY 800yuan (CNY1000yuan for No.1 building) is required for reservation of one room. The deposit will be forwarded to you hotel and deducted from your account when you check out. Any change made to the reservation prior to arrival must be communicated to CICCST, but not to the hotel. 

REGISTRATION

Registration is required for all the participants. For early registration, please register no later than Aug. 31, 2007.For the detail, please fill the registration form.

Registration Fee

Registration desk will be opened at FriendshipPalace in Friendship Hotel.

PAYMENT METHOD

All payment must be made in US Dollars by bank transfer or credit card. No

other type of payment will be accepted. Please note that all bank charges shall be

borne by the participant.

• Credit card: only Master Card, Visa, and American Express will be acceptable. It will be billed in Chinese yuan. Consequently, the amount charged to your account may vary due to the fluctuation in exchange rates. A 4% bank charge will be added to the amount to be billed. (please fill payment form)
• Bank transfer Beneficiary: CICCST(ChinaInternationalConferenceCenter for Science and technology); Bank Name: Bank of China Head Office; Account No.: 00038018091014;Swift Code : BKCHCNBJ; Bank Address: 1 Fuxingmen Nei Dajie, Beijing 100818, China (message with PESTICIDE2007)
• Bank draft only can be accepted before Sept. 1.

CANCELLATION AND REFUND POLICY

Any change or cancellation must be notified in writing to the Conference secretariat. Refund with remittance charge deducted will be processed after the Conference. The refund policy is given below where the date indicates the date when the cancellation request is received.

TOUR RESERVATION

The local tours and post-congress tours will be arranged by CICCST. They will offer you a very good opportunity to appreciate Chinese culture, ancient civilization and traditions. The tours should be booked by using the Registration Form and paid for before Aug. 31, 2007.

The minimum number of participants for a tour is 10 participants. If a tour was less than 10 participants, it will be cancelled and the full cost will be refunded.

1.Local tours

LT-1 The Tian’anmen Square-The Forbidden City(half day tour not including lunch)

Oct. 9 (Tue.) 13:30 – 16:30CNY230/person

LT-2The Great Wall at Juyongguan lunch–Sacred Way-The Ming Tombs– Art Factory

Oct. 10 (Wed.) 08:15 – 16:30CNY330/person

LT-3 The SummerPalace – lunch – The Lama Temple

Oct. 11 (Thu.) 08:15 – 16:00CNY290/person

LT-4Hutong Tour – lunch – The Temple of Heaven

Oct. 12 (Fri.) 08:15 – 16:30CNY290/person

2.Evening Program

EP-1Peking Opera

Oct. 11 (Thu.)18:10 – 22:00CNY140/person

EP-2Banquet

Oct. 12 (Wed.)18:30 – 21:00CNY350/person

Note: The local tour fees include an English-speaking tour guide, bus, entrance fees and Chinese lunch unless otherwise stated. Tours are nonrefundable once purchased. Please make the reservation on the Registration Form and include the relevant costs.

3.Post Congress Tours

PT-1 Beijing – Xi’an – Beijing (3 days 2nights)

Oc.t 13 (Sat.)Fly to Xi’an in the morning. Visit the Wild Goose Pagoda and the Old City Wall in the afternoon.

Oct. 14 (Sun.)Visit the Terra-Cotta Warriors and Horses and Sha’anxi ProvincialHistoryMuseum.

Oct. 15 (Wed.)Fly back to Beijing in the morning; transfer to the Continental Grand Hotel by bus. Tour ends.

Price:Single RoomCNY4090/person

Shared Twin RoomCNY3800/person

PT-2 Beijing –Xi’an–Chendu –Tibet–Chendu–Hong Kong (exit) (9 days 8 nights)

Oc.t 13 (Sat.)Fly to Xi’an in the morning. Visit the Wild Goose Pagoda and the Old City Wall in the afternoon.

Oct.14 (Sun.)Visit the Terra-Cotta Warriors and Horses and Sha’anxi ProvincialHistoryMuseum.

Oct. 15 (Mon.)Fly to Chendu in the morning. Sightseeing in the afternoon.

Oct. 16 (Tue.)Fly to Lhasain the morning.

Oct. 17(Wed.)Sightseeing in Lhasa

Oct. 18(Thu.)Take bus to Xigaza (400 km)Sightseeing in Xigazat

Oct. 19(Fri.)Sightseeing in Tibet

Oct. 20(Sat.)Fly bact to Chendu

Oct. 21(Sun.)Tour end after breadfast.

Chendu – Hong Kong (exit) (buy air-ticket by yourself)

Price:Single RoomCNY14900/person

Shared Twin roomCNY13300 /person

Note:

The tour fees include intercity transportation, hotel accommodation (three star or

above hotels), regular meals, a local English-speaking tour guide and entrance fees.

Participant should specify his/her own roommate when booking a twin room.

For PT-2, please arrange the flight from Chenduto Hong Kong by yourself.

CICCST can assist you as well.

CICCST will reserve the right to raise the prices (about 25%) or cancel any of

the above tour routes if there are less than 10 attendees. In that case, the notification will be sent to you as soon as possible and the tour fee will be fully refunded.

Tour Information

The Great Wall

Stretching for 6,000 kilometers from the east to the west, the Great Wall is China's ancient gigantic engineering project, one of the eight wonders of the world and the only man-made construction visible from satellites in orbit. Building of the Wall began during the Warring State Period (476-221 BC). When separate sections were built in scattered strategic areas by different kingdoms to protect their territories. Following China' s unification under the first Qin emperor. Qin Shi Huangdi (221-206 BC), the walls were linked up and extended. The imposing Badaling section, visited by virtually all tourists to the capital, is 6.6 meters high, 5.5 meters wide, broad enough to accommodate five cavalrymen or 10 infantrymen marching abreast. Standing atop the Great Walls, visitors looking through slots and over parapets can imagine the terrible battles, which were fought here hundreds of years ago.

The Ming Tombs

Of the 16 Ming emperors, 13 had their tombs built in the serene valley of Jingdushan Hill, about 50 kilometers from Beijing. Ding Ling (Emperor Wan Li) was buried here in 1620 with two of his wives in a deep marble vault located four stories underground, excavated in 1957. Twenty-six chests of jewelry and other artifacts were discovered at the foot of the huge coffins, and many of these finds can be viewed in the two exhibition halls constructed aboveground.

The PalaceMuseum (The Forbidden City)

Commonly known as the Forbidden City, the PalaceMuseum is the largest piece of ancient Chinese architecture still standing. It covers an area of 72 hectares, 960 meters long from north to south and 750 meters wide from east to west, and is encircled by a 10-meter high wall and a 52-meter wide moat. This large-scale construction, one of the great achievements of human history, took 14 years and was finished in 1420. The entire complex includes six main palaces, as well as many smaller buildings, together containing 9,999 rooms. It is a vast treasure house of precious art objects and rich architecture. Twenty-four emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties ruled from the Forbidden City.

The SummerPalace

The SummerPalace (Yi He Yuan), so named because it served as the summer residence of the imperial households, consists of the Longevity Hill (59 meters high) and KunmingLake with a total area of 290 hectares. It has a history of over 800 years. In 1153, the Jin Dynasty built an imperial palace on the present site of the SummerPalace. In 1750, Emperor Qianlong spent 4.8 million tales of silver in building the Garden of Clear Ripples and changed the name to Longevity Hill to celebrate his mother's birthday and the lake to Kunming for he wanted to follow the example of Emperor Wudi of Han Dynasty who had trained his navy centuries before in Kunming pool in Chang'an (near Xi'an).

The Temple of Heaven

Covering an area of 273 hectares, the Temple is a masterpiece of 15th-century architecture built in 1 420 according to the most advanced principles of mechanics and geometry available at the time. It consists mainly of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, the Imperial Vault of Heaven, and the Circular Mound Altar of Heaven. It was the place where emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties worshipped heaven and prayed for good harvests twice a year, on the 15th day of the first lunar month and at the winter solstice.

The LamaTemple

The LamaTemple(Yonghe Palce) is a famous lamasery located in the northeastern part of the old city. It was a palatial residence built in 1694 by Qing Emperor Kangxi for his fourth son, Prince Yongzheng. This magnificent temple consists of five main buildings lying on the north-south axis, with annex halls on both sides. After Emperor Yongzheng moved to the Forbidden City, it was renamed Yonghe Palace( the Palace of Harmony) and green roof tiles were replaced by yellow ones to suit a monarch’s home. The Palace was converted into a lamasery in 1744. In the last hall stands a spectacular 18-meters Maitria Buddha carved from a single sandwood tree.

Xi'an

Terra- Cotta Warriors and Horses. These life-sized figures served as a terra-cotta army for the tomb of the first emperor of Qinshihuang (259-210 BC.).

Huaqing Hot Springs. Situated at the foot of MountLishan, it has been famous since ancient times, where the royal families spent their summer time and took hot spring baths.

Banpo Neolithic Museum is built on the ruins of a 6 000 year-old Banpo Village. Traces of 100 houses have been found, with remarkably preserved examples of Stone Age pottery, tools, and human and animal bones. BanpoVillage was a typical matriarchal clan community in the Yellow River valley.

The Big Wild Goose Pagoda, the symbol of the city, was built in the Tang Dynasty (652 A.D.) to house the 657 volumes of Buddhist scriptures brought back from India by the monk Xuan Zang.

The AncientCity Wall, built during the Tang Dynasty, is the only complete city wall extant in China.

The Provincial Museum is one of the best museums in China. Displaying hundreds of thousands of precious exhibits.

Chengdu

Dujiangyan Irrigation System，built more than 2，000 years ago on the upper reaches

of the Minjiang River，the project enables the western Sichuan Plain to become “land

of abundance”. Marquis Wu Shrine was built in the Western Jin Dynasty (265-316) in

memory of Zhuge Liang，prime minister of Shu Kingdom of the Three Kingdom

Period. During the early Ming Dynasty it was merged with the temple of Liu Bei，the Marquis Emperor. Thatched Cottage of Du Fu was the former residence of the famous Tang Dynasty poet.

Lhasa

Potala Palace is a well known palace and fortress built in the 7th century by King Songtsan Gambo for his bride，the Han Princess Wen Cheng. It is composed of theRed Palace and WhitePalace with 1000 rooms in all. Norbu Lingka Park used to be Dalai Lamas’summer palace，where Dalai handled political affairs and held festival celebrations each year from April to September. Now it is a park. Jokhang Monastery was built in 647 by King Songtsan Gambo to commemorate Princess Wen Cheng’s arrival in Tibet. The building was in the style of the Tang Dynasty and adopted the characteristics of architecture from Nepal and India. Barkhon Street，situated in the center of the old Lhasa City，is a place where the traditional features and life style of the old city are still maintained. You can see pilgrims with their prayer wheels walking around the Jokhang Monastery chanting scriptures. Displayed along the street are various kinds of ethnic handicrafts，such as prayers wheels，incense，knives，rings and bracelets as well as clothing，all made by the Tibetans.Zhaibung and Sera Monasteries