Social Events
Social Events
Ice-breaker reception
Sunday September 15th 17:00-19:30 Location: The banquet hall of the hotel.All delegates are warmly invited and encouraged to attend. The Icebreaker Welcome Reception is the perfect time to catch up with colleagues that you haven't seen over the year, and meet new people in your field.
Han Show
Tuesday September 17th 19:30-21:30An experience of the Chinese culture to the Han Show. This electrifying show is inspired by the spirit of Han nationality, Chu-Han Dynasty and the city of Wuhan. Directed by the world's greatest show mastermind Mr. Franco Dragone, the Han Show is a creative masterpiece blending world leading technologies and performance that challenges physical boundaries.
The Han Show Theater shapes like a red lantern. This state-of-the-art theater is purpose-built for the Han Show featuring moving seats and a huge stage pool. It brings the audience a splendid sensory experience with 3 levels of performance: aerial, aquatic and immersive stage.
Price: $70/$77
City tour
The Yellow Crane Tower, or Huáng hè lóu in Chinese, is the most iconic building in all of Wuhan. Built around 1800 years ago, it was the watchtower of the city, and because of that, found itself repeatedly destroyed by warfare and fire, only to be rebuilt and rise from the ashes again and again.
Known for the poetry of some celebrated Chinese poets such as Cui Hao and Li Bai, the Yellow Crane Tower has a room in the upper floor that is specifically reserved for the notes of visiting poets. The cultural value of the Tower mainly stems from its presence in poetry and in immortals, which are two prominent cultural forms in Chinese history.
Don’t forget the top floor of the Tower, where you can have an unfettered panoramic view of Wuhan and the Yangtze River. Entry to the tower is 80 yuan (12 US dollars), 35 yuan (5 dollars) for students.
Located at the city's busiest street, Hubu Alley is a paradise for food lovers. The 147 m long T-shaped pedestrian street is full of appetizing local food and mouth-watering smells.
Hubei Provincial Museumhouses more than 200,000 historic and cultural relics from throughout the province, of which 16 are national treasures. As one of the best known museums in the country, there aren't many better places to learn the glorious complexity of Chinese history.
The centerpiece is the world’s largest musical instrument - an ancient set of bronze bells, “biān zhōng” in Chinese, which you won’t find anywhere else in China, even not in the Beijing’s Palace Museum. Note that a replica of the massive Chime Bells is played twice a day in the museum’s music hall by performers dressed in traditional robes. This performance is definitely the one you should not miss. Other items include the “Sword of Goujian”, the personal weapon of the King of the Yue State in the Spring and Autumn Period (771 B.C. to 403 B.C.), which is known for its unusual sharpness and resistance to blemishes.
Admission to the museumis free, though the “biān zhōng” performances are 15 yuan (2 dollars). You can easily spend half of a day here. Take your time and enjoy all the historic beauty.
Yifu museum of China university of geosciences is one of the best natural and history museums in China. It has collected more than 30,000 specimens of minerals and fossils, which ranked in the top around China. You will find many rare specimens in this museum, such as traumatocrinus guanlingensis, mandschurosaurus, psittacosaurus and ichthyosaus and so on. You can also learn the origin and evolution of life, observe a variety of mineral rock specimens and find out how various geological phenomena are generated, such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.
Start your day with a Wuhan style breakfast from Hubu Alley or any of the city's roadside vendors. In Wuhan, having breakfast, or “guo zao” (guò zǎo), as it’s said in local dialect, is probably one of the most important things to do for a day. There are over 200 different types of breakfast in Wuhan. Fried bread sticks (yóu tiáo), steamed dumplings, dòu pí, rè gān miàn, wontons, and sweet dumplings (tāng yuán) are just a few of the them. It is no exaggeration to say that you could go for three months without repeating the same breakfast.
Jianghan Street has over a century of history and is a famous Wuhan's time-honored business street, and one of the most bustling areas in the city. There are 13 historic buildings with European, Roman and Byzantine styles on the street, giving a flourish to the city. The shops on the street include more than 60 luxury brands, a Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, a Han Show Theater and a Movie Culture Park.
Wrap your day up with the stunning view of the Yangtze River. Wuhan is divided by the Yangtze River into three parts: Wuchang on the east bank and Hankou and Hanyang on the west. Transportation between the two banks was completely blocked for hundreds of years and residents were unable to cross. Now the Bridge combines the three districts as a single entity, which greatly boosted Wuhan's development.
Wrap your day up with the stunning view of the Yangtze River. Wuhan is divided by the Yangtze River into three parts: Wuchang on the east bank and Hankou and Hanyang on the west. Transportation between the two banks was completely blocked for hundreds of years and residents were unable to cross. Now the Bridge combines the three districts as a single entity, which greatly boosted Wuhan's development.