Post-Conference tour

Two different bus tours are available on 24 August, each including visits to commercial producers and protected horticultural technology exhibition station in the morning, and visit to the Summer Palace in the afternoon. The bus for each tour will depart promptly at 7:30 and return around 18:30. An additional fee of 600 CNY (about 90 $) per person is required to participate in a post-conference tour and includes transportation, light snacks and refreshments on the bus, lunch, and admission fees. Please be sure to wear comfortable walking shoes.

Tour 1: (Time schedule is subject to change)

7:30Bus departs at China National Convention Center (CNCC)
9:00: Shunyi Protected horticultural research and exhibition station, to see different types of Chinese greenhouses with hydroponic and soilless plant cultivation.








10:40:
Beijing international flower port, visiting the energy center (water source heat pump used for 17 hectares glasshouses), and Beijing Florascape Co.Ltd (flower seedling producer).





12:00:
Lunch at nearby restaurant.
15:00: Visiting Summer Palace






18:30: Bus departs to CNCC


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Tour 2: (Time schedule is subject to change)

7:30 : Bus departs at China National Convention Center (CNCC)
9:00: Visiting China Green Biological Technology company, a mushroom producer with daily production of 30,000kg.









10:40:
Visiting Tecai da guan yuan in Changping District, to see Chinese solar greenhouses and glasshouses with their plant cultivation.






12:00:
Lunch at nearby restaurant.

15:00: Visiting Summer Palace






18:30:
Bus departs to CNCC

Important Dates
Abstract Submission Begins
July 1, 2016

Oral Abstract Submission Deadline
October 1, 2016
November 1, 2016
December 1, 2016

Poster Abstract Submission Deadline
March 15, 2017
April 1, 2017

Registration Open
December 31, 2016

Early Registration Deadline
April 1, 2017

Online Registration Deadline
July 15, 2017
August 1, 2017

Deadline to Submit Acta Hort. Manuscript
July 1, 2017
August 1, 2017