Important Dates

（1）Start of abstract submission:  Jan 23rd, 2024

（2）Deadline of abstract submission: Mar 5th, 2024

（3）Notification of accepted abstracts: Apr 15th, 2024

（4）Confirming Attendance and registration(online): Apr 15th-20th, 2024

（5）Registration: May 10th, 2024

Tentative Schedule of Online Sessions

Note: Invited scholars will speak in some parallel sessions and workshops depending on their availability.

Hotel Information(to be confirmed)

For detailed information of hotel arrangements, please pay attention to emails/notification from the committee, or information on the official website.

Traffic Information

Location: School of Environment, Tsinghua University (Sino-Italy Ecological and Energy Efficient Building), is located about 200 meters northeast of the Southeast Gate, Tsinghua University.

1 Beijing West Railway Station: about 15 km

a) Take Special (Te)-19 bus (Beijing West Railway Station - Xiyuan Station), get in at Beijing West Railway Station, get off at Dongshengyuan Station, and walk north 700 meters to get to East Gate of Tsinghua University. (About 1 hour and 20 minutes)

b) Take Subway Line 9 (to national library station), get in at Beijing West Railway Station, get off at National Library Station, transfer to Line 4 Daxing Line (To Anheqiao North), get off at Zhongguancun Station, Exit-C (southeast), walk to the Zhongguancun South Station, take No.466 (or 355) bus, get off at Tsinghua East Road West Station, walk 200 meters to the east gate of Tsinghua University. (About 50 minutes)

2 Beijing Railway Station: about 18 km

Take Subway Line 2 (Inner Ring Road), get in at Beijing Railway Station, get off at Xizhimen Station, transfer to Line 13 (to Dongzhimen), get off at Wudaokou Station (Exit-B Southwest), walk 700 meters to the East Gate of Tsinghua University. (About 1 hour)

3 Beijing South Railway Station: about 17 km

Take Subway Line 4 Daxing Line (Anheqiao North), get in at Beijing South Railway Station, get off at Xizhimen Station, transfer to Subway Line 13 (Dongzhimen), get off at Wudaokou Station (Exit-B Southwest) walk 700 meters to the East Gate of Tsinghua University. (About 1 hour)

4 Beijing Capital Airport Terminal-2: about 33 km

a) Take the airport bus No.5 (Airport - Zhongguancun), get off at Zhongguancun (No.4 Bridge), ①take the taxi to East Gate of Tsinghua University; ② Walk to Baofusiqiaoxi Station and take bus No. 913 (or 333, 466 Road) bus, get off at Tsinghua East Road West Station, walk 200 meters to the east gate of Tsinghua University. (About 1 hour and 40 minutes)

b) Take the Subway Airport Line, get off at Sanyuanqiao Station, transfer to Subway Line 10 (Outer Ring Road), get off at Zhichun Road Station, take Subway Line 13 (Dongzhimen direction) and get off at Wudaokou Station (Exit-B Southwest), walk 700 meters to the east gate of Tsinghua University. (About 1 hour and 30 minutes)

5 Beijing Daxing International Airport: about 62 km

Take Daxing airport line, get off at Caoqiao station, change to Subway Line 10 (in the direction of Jijiamiao), get off at Zhichun Road station, take Subway Line 13 (in the direction of Dongzhimen), get off at Wudaokou station (exit from southwest exit of B), and walk 700 meters to the East gate of Tsinghua University. (AAAbout 2 hours and 11 minutes)

Tips:

1. The traffic system in Beijing is rather complex with heavy traffic congestion. Please arrange your travel mode reasonably according to the time.

2. Public transportation is usually crowded, please take good care of your safety and personal belongings;

3. Taxi fare in Beijing: Starts at RMB 13 (for the first 3 km), after 3km the fare is RMB 2.3 per kilometer.

Sightseeing

1. Tsinghua University Art Museum

Tsinghua University Art Museum owns more than 13,000 pieces of collections, covering six major categories, namely painting and calligraphy, embroidery, porcelain, furniture, bronze ware and comprehensive artwork. Most of the collections are from Academy of Arts and Design since 1956, and donations from Tsinghua alumni or some social elites. We aim to present diversified collections, to gather the latest original works, to promote exchanges with museums both at home and abroad and to share resources, so as to together sustain the development of human civilization.

Here you will feel the collision between the culture and your soul, and experience personally and vividly a journey of art and aesthetics. Accept changes of all things and carry on to realize great expectations; embrace the broad universe and further seek to pursue innovations. Starting from the opening day, Tsinghua University Art Museum will integrate wisdom of the creators of Chinese civilization and history, present the profound humanistic connotations of Tsinghua accumulated over the past century, and compile the new and brilliant chapter of building our museum into a world first-class modern comprehensive art museum.

2. Main Building

The main building is one of the landmark buildings of Tsinghua University and the center of Tsinghua campus. The main building group includes the central main building, the east main building and the west main building. Designed by Guan Zhaoye and others, it was completed in 1966, with a total floor area of 76871 square meters. Its design scheme resembles the features of the main building of Moscow University. As the largest building complex in Tsinghua, the whole building is magnificent and integrated, which fully reflects the broad mind and heroic spirit of Tsinghua teachers and students. The main building plays an important role in teaching and scientific research. It is now the location many departments, also the main place for the University’s main conference hall that receives important guests, including academic professionals, political and business leaders from all over the world, such as Nobel laureates, former US presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, UN Secretary General Annan, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

3. Sundial

The sundial is a classical timer used in ancient times. Located at the south end of the grand lawn in front of the Grand Auditorium, the Sundial was the graduation gift from the 1920 alumni of Tsinghua University. As one of the best grades in Tsinghua’s history, many renowned scholars, including the famous economist Chen Daisun, chemist Zeng Zhaolun and Zhao Xuehai, botanist Zhang Jingyue, political scholar Xiao Gongquan, all came from this grade. As an ancient tool to indicate time, the Sundial is a reminder for students to arrive at classes on time. At the same time, it also implies that students should cherish time, as the Chinese saying “An inch of time is worth an inch of gold”. The bottom of the Sundial is engraved with the motto of “Actions speak louder than words”, which later became the spirit of Tsinghua University.

4. Tsinghua Xuetang

Tsinghua Xuetang is one of the landmarks of Tsinghua University. Xuetang means school, a place for teaching. The construction of Tsinghua Xuetang was completed in 1916. It was one of the main buildings of the school at its early stage. The four Chinese characters painted above the main entrance read "Tsinghua School", the first name of the institution when it was founded. The inscription was by Na Tong, a Great Scholar and Grand Minister in late Qing Dynasty. Tsinghua Xuetang served as classrooms for senior students at the beginning of the school. After the east part was built, it remained a dormitory for senior graduating students for several years. In 1925, the Institute of Chinese Classics was set up here. The renowned “Four Tutors" in the Institute of Chinese Classics: Liang Qichao, Wang Guowei, Zhao Yuanren, Chen Yinque, the famous archeologist Li Ji, and litterateur Wu Mi were brought together. In the last few decades, it was used as teaching building and classrooms. Now it is the offices of some main administration departments: The Graduate School, the undergraduate academic department and the R&D department.

5. Tongfang Department

Tongfang Department is one of the early buildings of Tsinghua University. The whole building has grey brick wall and red tile roof in a European style. In the early days since its construction, it was used as an auditorium to worship Confucius. In 1923, the school established the “moral education guidance department”, which gave it the name of “Tongfang Department”. At that time, Tongfang Department was used as a place for extracurricular training activities. After Tsinghua turned into a university in 1925, the Tongfang Department was used as a small auditorium for lectures, parties and community activities.

6. Auditorium

As a symbol of Tsinghua University, the Auditorium was designed by American architect Murphy in 1913, and completed in 1917. It is one of the four major building projects carried out by Tsinghua School, together with Tsinghua Xuetang, the old library, and the west gymnasium. Since the American designer did not believe the quality of building materials in China, they imported the costing cork floors, chairs and even the red bricks all from America. The design of Auditorium based on the image of the auditorium in University of Pennsylvania. Endowed with the feature of both Greek and Roman building, looks very elegant. For a long time, the building has been viewed as the symbol of persistence, simplicity and indomitable will. Though more than 90 years has passed, the Auditorium still maintains quite well. Large-scaled activities like every Student Festival of different departments and some concerts are often held here.

7. Shuimu Tsinghua

To the west of the Grand Auditorium and behind the “Gong-shaped Hall (the president’s office)”, there is a secluded lotus pond known as “Shuimu Tsinghua”, one of the most attractive attractions in Tsinghua campus, with its water area of 1000 square meters. The south side of this lotus pond is originally the back building of the “Gong-shaped Hall”, also the corridor of “Shuimu Tsinghua”. In 1978, to mark the 30th anniversary of the great writer Zhu Ziqing’s death, the pavilion near the lotus pond was renamed “Ziqing Pavilion”, and a white marble statue of Zhu Ziqing was built on the north side of the lotus pond.

8. Jinchun Garden

As the former residence of Emperor Xianfeng of Qing Dynasty, Jinchun Garden is located at the central area of Emperor Kangxi’s garden called “Xichun Garden”. During the Emperor Daoguang’s reign, Xichun Garden was divided into two smaller gardens, and the west part of the Gong-shaped Hall was called “Jinchun Garden”. Today, Jinchun Garden is surrounded by a pool of clear water full of lotus roots, a pleasant and fragrant place to visit in June.