| The biannual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Advanced
Network (APAN) Consortium will be held in the Chinese capital of Beijing during
2000.8.22~26. About Beijing
China has had several capitals through the thousands of years of its
history. King Wu was the first to declare Beijing the capital city - then of the Kingdom
of Yan - in 1057 BC during the Western Zhou Dynasty. Subsequently, the city has gone by
the names of Ji, Zhongdu, Dadu, and finally Beijng when the Ming Dynasty Emperor chengzu
chose the name in 1421.
For almost seven centuries, Beijing was a powerful center for the
Mongols, the Ming era, the Manchus and now, since 1949, the People's Republic of China.
Unlike most major cities of the world, Beijing was not built on a
waterway. Rather, it owes its geographical prominence to its positions as a gateway to
other regions; Inner Mongolia to the north, the Great Wall's easternmost reach at
Shanhaiguan, and to northeast China, once known as Manchuria.
More about Beijing.
About the meetings
There will be a tutorial for Chinese people attending this
conference, a two-day's workshop on network technology and applications and three-day's
APAN WG meetings, and the committee meeting will be held on Aug. 26. These meetings are
parallel. Any updates will also be shown on this page. |
