Venue

Hotel

The workshop will be held at the Institute of Modern Physics located near the downtown center of Lanzhou. A number of rooms have been reserved in the Ning-Wo-Zhuang Hotel(about 5 minutes walk to IMP) for the workshop participants at Registered Member rate. Two buildings are available for the workshop, the No.2 Building and VIP Building, The rate of different room rate is shown in the following table.(1 € rates roughly10¥)

NO.2 Building				VIP Building
Deluxe Standard Room	Grand King	Deluxe Suite	VIP suite B	Standard Room	Business Standard Room	Suite	Deluxe suite
¥980	¥980	¥1990	¥2990	¥380(New)	¥420(New)	¥800	¥2400

All the participants are expected to make their hotel reservation through the Ning-Wo-Zhuang Hotel, there one can get the detail information of room.

No pre-payment for the hotel reservation is requested. The hotel payment can be made by credit card (VISA or MASTER CARD) or cash when you arrive at the hotel or during your stay in the hotel. The hotel information is available on the workshop web site.

Region

Lanzhou is the capital of Gansu province. The medium-sized city is located along the famous Silk Road with a history of more than thousand years. Lanzhou has a total area of about 14,000 square kilometers and a population of 2.6million. There are more than 30 ethnic groups in Lanzhou.

Lanzhou stretches along the Yellow River as it snakes its way through the valley. The city is located on the loess plateau with an average elevation of 1520 meters. Its weather is comparatively good. Winters are not severe, nor is it extremely hot in summer. When most cities of China suffer from the intense heat of summer, the average temperature here is only 22.6°C(73F) in the hottest month.

Travel

There are a number of flights from BEIJING/SHANGHAI/GUANGZHOU/CHENGDU to LANZHOU everyday. Participants are kindly requested to inform the local committee your flight number, date and landing time, our colleagues will pick you up in Lanzhou Zhongchuan airport and drive you to Ning-Wo-Zhuang Hotel.

There is an hourly bus service to Lanzhou Zhongchuan airport, which takes about 1 hour to go at a price of roughly 50.00¥. The hotel is in about 1.5 km distance from the railway station. Railway station and city center are within walking distance from the hotel.

Weather

The weather at the beginning of September should be still pleasantly warm, but you should be prepared for cold and rainy days.