10th IUPAC International Conference on Novel Materials and their Synthesis (NMS-X)

10th-15th October, 2014

Zhengzhou, China Second Circular

ORGANIZED BY:

Zhengzhou University

Fudan University

University of Technology, Sydney

SPONSORED BY:

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Henan Chemical Society, China

1 INVITATION On behalf of the Organizing Committee, it is my great pleasure to invite you to attend the 10th IUPAC International Conference on Novel Materials and their Synthesis (NMS-X) and Post-Conference in the coming October, 2014 in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China. More than 180 invited lectures will present their recent research progress in various fields of novel materials including their preparation, characterization, properties and applications. It’s a good chance to renew our friendship and to facilitate discussions on fine chemistry, biomaterials, functional polymers, energy storage and conversion materials, nano materials, ceramic materials, metallic materials, and other novel materials. Zhengzhou University (ZZU) was founded on July 10, 2000 through the annexation of the former Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou University of Technology and Henan Medical University. ZZU has become the only national “211 Project” key university in Henan Province. Co-sponsored by the Henan Provincial Government and the Ministry of Education, it is the sole university in Henan Province to be supported by “The Midwest Universities Comprehensive Strength Promotion Project”. ZZU has four campuses, and the new campus is about 4 km to our conference site. ZZU has at present over 49,000 full-time undergraduates, 15,000 full-time graduates and 1,100 international students. Meanwhile, there are over 6,000 full-time staff members. Zhengzhou City is the capital city of Henan Province, which is situated in the central plain of China and near Yellow River, about 700 km south of Beijing and1000 km west of Shanghai. You can easily transfer your flight from almost any large airport in China such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou to Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport. The long history and brilliant civilization have made Henan Province rich in humanistic and natural scenery, where there are many historic interests and scenic beauty, such as the Songshan scenic spots with Shaolin Temple; Yinxu Museum with all of its buildings modeled on the style of architecture of the Shang Dynasty that is the first integrate historical site with landscape art in China; Yuntai Mountain, the famous geography view point, is an international level geology park. A Post-Conference will be arranged around Henan province. The conference site, Glory Hotel, is located in the city of Zhengzhou, which is traffic convenience and near our university. This hotel also boasts the largest industry in Henan hotel indoor fitness, swimming, tennis, badminton, table tennis and other high-end sports club house. We hope you will enjoy staying there. If you have further questions or problems, please contact us in time. Looking forward to your active participation to add a lot of colors to the success of this Conference!

Sincerely yours, Shaokui Cao

On behalf of the cochairs of IUPAC NMS-X (Profs. Shaokui Cao, Yuping Wu & Guoxiu Wang)

2 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

COCHAIRS Shaokui Cao, Zhengzhou Yuping Wu, Shanghai G.X. Wang, Sydney

GENERAL SECRETARY Shengang Xu, Zhengzhou

MEMBERS Ruke Bai, Hefei Jingbo Chen, Zhengzhou Fen’er Chen, Shanghai Liban Chen, Guangzhou Jianhua Dong, Beijing Kannian Fan, Shanghai Shibi Fang, Beijing Xiaosheng Fang, Shanghai Shoukuan Fu, Shanghai Jingxing Gao, Xiamen Ziyi Ge, Ningbo Zhewen Han,Shanghai Wenping Hu, Beijing Meiyu Huang, Beijing Ming Jiang, Shanghai Guoxin Jin, Shanghai Bin Li, Shanghai Yinfeng Liu, Shanghai Liming Tang, Beijing Wenhua Sun, Beijing Shenguo Wang, Beijing Yunpu Wang, Lanzhou Peiyi Wu, Beijing Mujie Yang, Hangzhou Shiyong Yang, Beijing Rongben Zhang, Beijing Youliang Zhao, Suzhou Xiaowei Zhan, Beijing

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD S. Asaoka, Japan A. Baba, Japan D.Y. Chao, China C.Y. Chen, China J. Cho, South Korea Y. Cohen, Israel J. Collin, France W. Dai, China A.S. Demir, Turkey M. Eisen, Israel A.J. Attias, France X.L. Feng, Germany G. Frater, Switzerland L.H. Gan, Singapore K.E.Geckeler, South Korea A. Hirao, Japan J. Inanaga, Japan E.T. Kang, Singapore Y. Kawakami, Japan Y. Kimura, Japan N. Koide, Japan N. Kuramoto, Japan M. Lazzari, Spain R.S. Liu, Taiwan, China P.H.L. Notten, Netherland S. Penczek, Poland R. Robison, Australia H. Sakurai, Japan H. Schumann, Germany A. Seeboth, Germany H. Shchipunov, Russia M. Shimizu, Japan J.L. Taverde, France K. Undheim, Norway O. Unger, UK T. Uryu, Japan G.X. Wang, Astralia X.L. Wang, Australia T. Yoshida, Japan D.H. Yu, Australia M. Yus, Spain L. Zhang, Canada J.J. Zhang, Canada P. Zugenmaier, Germany

3  SITE AND PERIOD

Glory Hotel (★★★★)（光华大酒店） No. 68, Ruida Road, High-tech Industrial Development Zone Zhengzhou 450001 China Tel: +86-371-67992888 Fax: +86-371-67992888 Date: 10th-17th October, 2014

VENUE Glory Hotel（光华大酒店）is located in Zhengzhou（郑州）as described by the right rough map. The distance from Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport, Zhengzhoudong Railway Station and Zhengzhou Railway Station to the Glory Hotel is about 50 km, 30 km and 12 km, respectively. If by taxi, it will cost about 160 RMB, 90 RMB and 30 RMB, respectively.

 SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION SCOPE The Conference is intended to provide for the exposition and discussion of research on novel materials including their preparation, characterization, properties and applications. Topics presented will be as the follows: Symposium A: Innovative chiral and achiral compounds, their novel preparation methods including catalytic ones, properties and applications. Symposium B: Innovative bio- and biobased materials and composites, their preparation, properties and applications. Symposium C: Innovative polymers such as conducting, semiconducting ones, supramolecular (supermolecular, dynamers), and their preparation, properties and applications. Symposium D: Innovative energy systems including fuel cells, solar cells, lithium batteries and supercapacitors, and their key materials, performance and applications. Symposium E: Innovative nanomaterials, their characterization and application. Symposium F: New ceramic materials such as super- conductors, electronic, dielectric, ferroelectric, piezoelectric, opto-electronic and magnetic materials, their preparation and applications. Symposium G: Novel materials related to coal, carbon, fullerene, graphene and graphite, and their applications. Symposium H: Other novel materials related to perfumes, agricultural chemicals, photosensitive materials, displaying materials, fine ceramics alloys, their preparation, properties and applications. Symposium I: New characterization methods and application in fundamental and applied researches based on new materials.

METHOD OF PRESENTATION Plenary lectures (45 min each), keynoted invited lectures (30 min each), invited lectures (20 min each), oral presentation (10 min each) and poster sessions will be arranged. Multimedia projection facilities and 120x90 cm poster board will be available in lecture halls. As to speakers of plenary lectures, invited lectures and oral presentations, it is strongly recommended to use multimedia

4 projector in the form of “ppt” or “pptx” since overhead projector will not be available for this Conference.

ABSTRACT PREPARATION All participants except accompanying persons are requested to submit an extended abstract of their talk and poster, one page for each speaker. Usually one participant could not submit more than 2 abstracts. The abstract should be submitted in electronic version via the website of the Conference (www.nms-iupac.org) after login. The typing area of each page should be no more than 16 cm wide by 23 cm deep. If there are several authors on the abstract, please underline the speaker. As to details for the preparation of the abstract, please refer to the template form. In emergency, the abstract can be emailed to the General Secretary of the Conference, Prof. Shengang Xu, [email protected], [email protected], before 31st July, 2014 in the form of “.doc”. Of course, extended full papers can be published in other journals. In order to avoid possible problems of copyrights, in the full paper please cite the page number of your abstract. If your submission via the website is not confirmed within one week, please contact the Organization Committee in time.

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION 31st July, 2014

PAPER PUBLICATION On behalf of the guest editorial member of Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, we would like to invite you to contribute a paper to a special issue for this Conference. Please confirm your reply before the end of December, 2014. The submission deadline will be the end of January, 2015. If you have questions or problems, please contact with us or Prof. Dr. Bassam (Email: [email protected], [email protected]).

LANGUAGE The official language of the Conference is English.

 TRAVELING INFORMATION AND PICK-UP AT THE AIRPORT You can easily transfer your flight from almost any large airport in China such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou to Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport. The secretarial staff carrying a board with “IUPAC NMS-X” sign will meet you at the exits of Airport, and then guide you to the hotel. Please inform us timely your flight number, arrival time and the airport to the General Secretary of the Conference Prof. Shengang Xu by email. If you arrive in Zhengzhou before or after 10th October, 2014, the secretarial staff will also guide you to the hotel according to your information if you need. Please also note the board “IUPAC NMS-X” at the exits of the Airports or railway station. The staff will help you to the Conference site. If you miss our service, please take a taxi to the hotel by yourself. You may show the rough map to the taxi driver.

INFORMATION Japanese participants can contact the following travel agency for their travel from Japan to China. Leadman Universe Corporation

5 3-1-2 Tsukamoto Building, Kamimeguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0051, JAPAN TEL: +81-(0)3-3793-7545 FAX: +81-(0)3-3793-7500 E-mail: [email protected]

 SOCIAL PROGRAM Some historic interests and scenic beauty in Zhengzhou such as Henan Museum, New Campus of ZZU will be visited. Ladies programs are also organized.

 SCHEDULE (Primary)

Date AM PM Evening

October 10 Registration Registration Registration

Opening Addresses Invited Lectures & October 11 Welcome Party Plenary Lectures Oral Presentations October 12 Invited Lectures & Invited Lectures & Concert Oral Presentations Oral Presentations Invited Lectures & Invited Lectures & October 13 Free Oral Presentations Oral Presentations Plenary, Invited Plenary, Invited October 14 Lectures & Lectures & Banquet Oral presentations Posters

October 15 City tour City tour

October 16-17 Post-conference Post-conference

 POST-CONFERENCE TOUR October 16th ~ 17th, 2014 Post-Conference tour will be arranged by travel agency. It will cost about 1000 RMB for the expense of transportation, sightseeing, entrance tickets, and meals. There are two routes for post-conference as follows. You can select either Route 1 or Route 2 for your post-conference tour. During the post-conference tour, the accommodation will also be at Glory Hotel everyday. That is to say, we will start our tour by bus each day after the breakfast from Glory Hotel, Zhengzhou, and then back to the same hotel in the afternoon for supper.

Route 1 is the ancient capital culture of central plains, Shaolin Temple (少林寺) etc.- Luoyang (洛 陽). October 16, 2014. Glory Hotel  Shaolin Temple (少林寺) including Shaolin Temple, the performance of Shaolin Kungfu (少林功夫), Songyang Academy of Classical Learning(嵩阳书 院) Glory Hotel. October 17, 2014. Glory Hotel  Luoyang (洛陽) including Longmen Grottoes (龙门石窟), White Horse Temple(白马寺) Glory Hotel

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Shaolin Temple (少林寺) Longmen Grottoes (龙门石窟)

Route 2 is the landscape and culture of central plains, Yuntai Mountain(云台山)－Kaifeng(開封) October 16, 2014. Glory Hotel  Yuntai Mountain (云台山) Glory Hotel October 17, 2014. Glory Hotel  Kaifeng(開封) including the Garden of Market in Qingming Festival (清明上河园), Great Xiangguo Temple (大相国寺) Glory Hotel

Yuntai Mountain (云台山) The Garden of Market in Qingming Festival (清明上河园)

 CORRESPONDENCE All correspondence should be sent directly to: Prof. Shaokui Cao, Prof. Yuping Wu or Prof. Shengang Xu School of Materials Science and Engineering Zhengzhou University No. 100 of Science Road Zhengzhou 450001, China Tel & Fax: 86-371-6776-3561 Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

 Plenary lecture speakers

No. Names Countries and Areas 1. Benzhong Tang Hongkong 2. Heinz Berke Switzerland 3. Jiandong Ding China 4. Guosheng Shao UK

7 5. Hiroshi Kitagawa Japan 6. Der-Jang Liaw Taiwan, China 7. Shiyong Yang China Note: to be updated.

 Keynote lecture speakers (Partial list) If your name does not appear, please tell us as soon as possible since we did not receive your confirmation message due to the network problems. (In the alphabetic order of surname of the speakers. The titles are omitted.)

No. Names Countries and Areas 1. André-Jean Attias France 2. Alberta Bonanni Austria 3. Christoph Bubeck Germany 4. Guoping Chen Japan 5. Thibaud Coradin France 6. Tomasz Dietl Poland 7. Jin-Yong Dong China 8. Zhiyong Fan Hongkong 9. Faming Gao China 10. Ujjal K Gautam India 11. Yuguo Guo China 12. Tawfique Hasan UK 13. Chaobin He Singapore 14. Johnny Ho Hongkong 15. Haiping Hong USA 16. Ning Hu Japan 17. Takashi Itoh Japan 18. Christine Jérôme Belgium 19. Sung Hwa Jhung South Korea 20. Donglin Jiang Japan 21. Guoxin Jin China 22. Tatsuo Kaneko Japan 23. Yang Kim South Korea 24. Takaomi Kobayashi Japan 25. Teruyuki Komatsu Japan 26. Michihisa Koyama Japan 27. Andreas Künkel Germany 28. Massimo Lazzari Spain 29. Pooi See Lee Singapore 30. Keon Jae Lee South Korea 31. Zhibo Li China 32. Ru-Shi Liu Taiwan, China 33. Renzhi Ma Japan 34. Hsin-Fei Meng Taiwan, China

8 35. Kunio Mochida Japan 36. Shichun Mu China 37. Takayoshi Nakamura Japan 38. Yasuhiro Nakazawa Japan 39. Nikolay E. Nifantiev Russia 40. Peter H.L. Notten Netherland 41. Akiyoshi Osaka Japan 42. Jianyong Ouyang Singapore 43. Qibing Pei USA 44. Stanislaw Penczek Poland 45. Shizhang Qiao Australia 46. Jieshan Qiu China 47. Liangti Qu China 48. Talat Shahnaz Rahman USA 49. Helmut Ritter Germany 50. Hidehiro Sakurai Japan 51. Zongping Shao China 52. Fa-Nian Shi Portugal 53. Gaoqun Shi China 54. Makoto Shimizu Japan 55. Hyun-Kon Song South Korea 56. Wen-Hua Sun China 57. Mikolaj Szafran Poland 58. Masato Tanaka Japan 59. Xinyong Tao China 60. John Texter USA 61. Ikuyoshi Tomita Japan 62. Hiroshi Uyama Japan 63. Stefan Vajda USA 64. Fiorenzo Vetrone Canda 65. Fu-Ming Wang Taiwan, China 66. Guoxiu Wang Australia 67. James Wang USA 68. Jiazhao Wang Australia 69. Gang Wei Australia 70. Gunnar Westin Sweden 71. Judy Wu USA 72. Yujie Xiong China 73. Kimihisa Yamamoto Japan 74. Ada Yonath Israel 75. Chengzhong (Michael) Yu Australia 76. Hsiao-Wen Zan Taiwan, China 77. Xiaowei Zhan China

9 78. Anning Zhou China 79. Bingsuo Zou China 80. Dechun Zou China 81. Jiujun Zhang Canada 82. Junjie Zhu China 83. Kongjun Zhu China Note: to be updated.

 Invited lecture speakers (Partial list) (In the alphabetic order of surname of the speakers. The titles are omitted.) If your name does not appear, please tell us as soon as possible since we did not receive your confirmation message due to the network problems.

No. Names Countries and Areas 1. Bassam M. El Ali Saudi Arabia 2. Kensuke Akamatsu Japan 3. Nabil Alkadasi Yemen 4. Eglantina Benavente Chile 5. Tadeusz Biela Poland 6. Elodie Bourgeat-Lami France 7. Chu-Shiang Chen Taiwan, China 8. Soo Kien Chen Malaysia 9. Nandeo Choony USA 10. Vera Cimrova Czech 11. Marek Cypryk Poland 12. Yaroslav Derikov Russia 13. Martin Foldyna France 14. Lan Fu Australia 15. Katsushi Fujii Japan 16. Xingsen Gao China 17. Ziyi Ge China 18. Jean-Francois Gerard France 19. Mehran Ghiaci Iran 20. Guillermo Gonzalez Chile 21. Adam Gorczyński Poland 22. Chang-Sik Ha South Korea 23. Nabila Haddadine Algeria 24. Shinya Hayami Japan 25. Rudolf Holze Germany 26. Linfeng Hu China 27. Shu-Fen Hu Taiwan, China 28. Haitao Huang Hongkong 29. Ibnelwaleed Ali Hussein Saudi Arabia 30. Jens Strabo Hummelshoej USA

10 31. Chenglong Jia China 32. Pascal Jonkheijm Netherland 33. Jun-ichi Kadokawa Japan 34. Hway Chuan Kang Singapore 35. Shuichi Kanno Japan 36. Hideyuki Katsumata Japan 37. Naoki Kawazoe Japan 38. Vaidotas Kazukauskas Lithuania 39. Il Kim South Korea 40. Sang Sub Kim South Korea 41. Kazuya Kobiro Japan 42. Kenji Kono Japan 43. Yaroslav V. Kudryavtsev Russia 44. Ho-Hung Kuo Taiwan, China 45. Norbert Langwald Poland 46. Meicheng Li China 47. Liang Li China 48. Xinheng Li China 49. Gang Liu China 50. Kuniharu Ijiro Japan 51. Shengli Lu China 52. Youjun Lu China 53. Motoaki Matsuo Japan 54. Takeo Minari Japan 55. Hiroki Miyaoka Japan 56. Ahmed El-Toni Mohamed Saudi Arabia 57. Hideharu Mori Japan 58. Mohamed Mahmoud Nasef Malaysia 59. Sadafumi Nishihara Japan 60. Shogo Nobukawa Japan 61. Satoshi Ohara Japan 62. Zorica Crnjak Orel Slovenia 63. Chun-Wei Pao Taiwan, China 64. Muthusamy Paramasivam India 65. Dae-Won Park South Korea 66. Alfons Penzkofer Germany 67. Dongfang Qiu China 68. Nan Qiu Japan 69. Teunis van Ree South Africa 70. Stephen Rimmer UK 71. Yuichi Sato Japan 72. Udo Schwingenschlogl Saudi Arabia 73. Muhammad Idiris Saleh Malaysia

11 74. Tohru Sekino Japan 75. Fabien Silly France 76. Elena Tarabukina Russia 77. Laldja Taïbi-Benziada Algeria 78. Eng Soon Tok Singapore 79. Takashi Uemura Japan 80. Yutaka Ukaji Japan 81. Isabella Concina Italy 82. Danyang Wang Australia 83. Jinmin Wang China 84. Rong-Min Wang China 85. Eamor Woo Taiwan, China 86. Chuan Wu China 87. Xiaoxiong Xu China 88. Liuming Yan China 89. Nan-Loh Yang USA 90. Xiaoyu Yang China 91. Haitao Ye UK 92. Chen-Yu Yeh Taiwan, China 93. Shu Yin Japan 94. Dehong Yu Australia 95. Junhua Yu South Korea 96. Zhongzhen Yu China 97. Aldona Zalewska Poland 98. Nobuyuki Zettsu Japan 99. Cheng Zhang China 100. Haining Zhang China 101. Yong Zhang China 102. Tingjun Zhong UK 103. Note: to be updated.

 Oral Presentation (Partial list) (In the alphabetic order of surname of the speakers. The titles are omitted.) If your name does not appear, please tell us as soon as possible since we did not receive your confirmation message due to the network problems. No. Names Countries and Areas 1. Xin Jin Japan 2. Liyi Chen Japan 3. Takeshi Furuta Japan 4. Anita Frydrych Poland 5. 6. 7.

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13  Poster (Partial list) (In the alphabetic order of surname of the speakers. The titles are omitted.) If your name does not appear, please tell us as soon as possible since we did not receive your confirmation message due to the network problems. No. Names Countries and Areas 1. Avhapfani Wendy Bebeda South Africa 2. Yong Wang China 3. Oon Jew Lee Malaysia 4. Agnieszka Antosik Poland 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39.

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 REGISTRATION & PAYMENT All participants (including plenary and invited lecture speakers) are requested to pay registration fees, the cost of hotel and meals in advance. Ms. Jun Shi is the specialized accountant of NMS-X Organizing Committee. Registration fees should be transferred or deposited to the following account (Valid only for this Conference).

Account name: Shi (family name) Jun (given name) (please do not add any titles or calling before the name such as Prof. or Prof. Dr.) Account No: 6226 6222 0817 2516 Name of Bank: CHINA EVERBRIGHT BANK, ZHENGZHOU BRANCH, ZHENGZHOU FENGCHAN ROAD SUB-BRANCH Address of Bank: No. 21 FENGCHAN ROAD, ZHENGZHOU Postcode: 450002 Swift code: EVERCNBJZZ1

Please be sure that the registration fee does not contain any transaction costs. The deadline for advance registration is 31st August, 2014. All payments have to be made in RMB (Chinese currency, also called Chinese Yuan): Registration fee: Normal participant: 4000 RMB Invited speaker: 3000 RMB Student: 2000 RMB (Please show the student ID upon registration)

The expenses for the welcome party, refreshments, excursion, banquet, dinner, and a copy of proceedings will be free for the registered delegates.

In case of not being able to transfer the fees before the deadline, please pay by cash on the registration day. However, the secretary should be notified in advance. Or else, 10% overcharge will be included. On registration, only cash is accepted, personal checks, traveler’s checks and credit cards are not acceptable. We feel very sorry if there is any inconvenience for you. Please download the Registration and Accommodation Forms from website of the Conference (www.nms-iupac.org ), and send the completed forms to the Organization Committee

15 ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected]) before the end of August, 2014. In emergency, you can send the information to us by fax (+86-371-6776 3561).

 CANCELLATION OF REGISTRATION FEE In the event of cancellation of registration before September10th, 2014, 80% of the registration fee will be refunded due to the refunding cost. After September 11th, 2014, the registration fee will not be refunded.

 ACCOMMODATION & PAYMENT All hotel rooms are reserved and arranged by the Organizing Committee so that a discounted price can be ensured. In order to secure a room, please fill-in clearly your dates of arrival and departure, and send the information to us by email, mail or fax before August 31, 2014 since October is the busiest and most popular season of Zhengzhou. The payment account is the same as that for the registration. If you want to cancel, please tell the organization committee at least 7 days before the Conference. Or else, the charge at least for one night will be paid. The discounted price for the hotels during the Conference is as follows:

Hotels Favorable price only for registered delegates. Type A ( double room ) (★★★★) * 568 RMB / night Type B ( Single or double room ) (★★★★) * 468 RMB / night Type C (Single or double room) (★★★★) * 368 RMB / night Type D (Single or double room:) (★★★) ** 260 RMB / night *Glory Hotel, the site of conference. ** Tobacco Science and Technology Hotel, about 2 km to the conference site. Note: Due to the limited numbers of each kind room, we feel very sorry if there is some change of your reservation.

 PASSPORT AND VISA All foreign participants should possess valid passports and visas. In addition, most visitors from abroad have to apply for visas. You may apply for a tourist visa via a travel agency in your country. If you need the formal invitation to apply for an entry visa, please fill in the required information

while login the website of the Conference (Hwww.nms-iupac.org/present conference) and those items marked with asterisk is necessary. Or else, we feel very sorry that we could not help you to get the document in time. In emergency, please send it to General Secretary of the Conference Prof. Shengang Xu. He will fax or send the required documents to you before September 1st, 2014. Please apply for an entry visa at the nearest Chinese Embassy or Consulate.

 TAXI AND OTHER SPECIAL SERVICES Since most taxi drivers can not speak English, please show the map and they will take you to the Hotel. Cable internet services are included in the discounted prices for hotel. Photocopy, post office, phone and fax services in the hotel are also available. The cost for such special services will be paid by yourself.

16  CLIMATE The weather in Zhengzhou is at its best season during the conference and the temperature ranges between 10-22 oC.

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