ICQ- International Conference of Geobiology

The following three- and five-star hotels on the CUG campus or nearby have been provisionally reserved at preferential prices for participants of the Symposium. No deposit is required to reserve a room, but allocation will be on an FCFS (First Come, First Served) basis.
CUG Hotel (three-star), 50 US$ per night for a standard double-bed room with suite facilities.more
Mengtianhu Hotel (three-star), 60 US$ per night for a standard double-bed room.
Ramada Hotel (five-star), 100 US$ per night for a luxury suite, 150 US$ per night for a business suite.more

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About Wuhan http://english.wh.gov.cn/

    Wuhan is the capital of Hubei Province in Central China. The Yangtze River and Hanshui River divide Wuhan into three parts: Hankou, Hanyang and Wuchang, generally known as Wuhan's Three Towns and most universities including CUG are located in Wuchang. Wuhan occupies a land area of 8494.41km² mostly on the floodplain of the Yangze River, dotted with a great number of lakes. It has a population of about 8 million.
     Wuhan has a subtropical humid monsoon climate. There is abundant rainfall and sunshine during four distinct seasons. In recent thirty years, the average rainfall in June was 151mm, with 12 rainy days. The average lowest and highest temperature in early June are 20℃ and 28℃, respectively.
    Wuhan is an inland economic cross-roads of China. It connects the east to the west, channels the north to the south, and links rivers to seas through well-developed water, land and air traffic links. Most of China's major metropolises such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Xi'an are within a radius of 1000km around Wuhan. Wuhan is the important strategic supporting point of Central China.

About CUG http://en.cug.edu.cn/cug/index.asp

    CUG, founded in 1952, is a leading national university affiliated to the Ministry of Education of China, with one campus at Wuhan and the other at Beijing. CUG (Wuhan) boasts a campus covering an area of approximately 1.13 million square meters beside the scenic East Lake and adjacent to a national high-tech development zone and "China’s Optical Valley". CUG has a staff of 2950 with 349 professors, 586 associate professors, and 9 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a total enrollment of over 44,400 students. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and Olympic badminton Championship Gao Ling graduated from CUG.
    CUG (Wuhan) combines a strong competitive edge in geology, resources, environment, and geological engineering technology with many other science and engineering academic disciplines and also social sciences and management. There are 22 faculties including science, engineering, literature, management, economics, law, education and philosophy. There are 62 undergraduate academic programs authorized to grant bachelor's degrees, 119 academic programs for Master's degrees, and 39 academic programs for Ph D students.
    The university has the longest in-campus tunnel of any Chinese university and a well-known reconstructed fossil forest. Its famous Yifu Museum has outstanding modern displays of more than 30,000 specimens including nearly 2,000 rare samples of fossils, minerals, and national treasures in ten major exhibition areas. The Chinese National Tourism Administration has recognized the Yifu Museum as a 4A level national tourist attraction, the first such honour awarded to a Chinese university museum, and so far unique.