* IIE will charter a bus to take Shenzhen fair participants directly to the Shenzhen fair venue. The bus will depart promptly from the Conrad Hotel, Hong Kong, at 9:00 am. Participants wishing to take the bus service should arrive at the front entrance of the Conrad before 9:00 am. Similarly, the bus will take fair participants back to Hong Kong after the end of the Shenzhen fair. Please have all travel documentation ready as we will go through a border check before entering Shenzhen. No prior registration or reservation with IIE is required to take the bus. There is no additional fee for this service. (Fair participants wishing to travel to Shenzhen at a different time should make their own arrangements.)

Shangri-La Hotel, Shenzhen
East Side, Railway Station,
1002 Jianshe Road,
Shenzhen 518001,
China
Tel : (86 755) 8233 0888
Fax : (86 755) 8233 9878
Email : slz@shangri-la.com

Note: Expanding banner stands are prohibited from being displayed immediately next to the university/college's table as they may block tables behind them. There will be a designated area where these stands may be displayed.

The last time IIE held a fair in Shenzhen was in 2003. 19 universities were represented at that fair, and about 800 students and other visitors attended the event. While students are primarily interested in graduate level programs, there is growing interest in undergraduate (and even summer programs).

Popular subjects include:

• Engineering / Computer Science
• Business, Management & Marketing
• Biological, Biomedical Sciences
• Communications
• Health Sciences
• Math/Statistics

OCS will be working with IIE again in 2007 as an official shipper of exhibitor materials.
Participating institutions shipping with OCS will not need to make any international shipments.
Instead, all boxes can be forwarded to our OCS trade fair hub in Boston.

From here, OCS will take care of the rest, including address labeling and export documentation.
OCS will pay all duties and taxes on your behalf overseas. You will have no customs clearance worries.
OCS performs all of these services seamlessly and automatically for all exhibitors shipping with OCS.

We will store all exhibitors’ materials in our overseas stations and deliver them on instruction from IIE, direct to the fair venue.

Complete shipping instructions will be emailed to all registered participants.
You can always contact OCS at fairs@shipOCS.com or by calling toll-free in the U.S. 1-877-2222-OCS.

Note: for participants NOT using OCS.

If you decide to use another carrier to ship directly overseas, your ship-to address will be the OCS agency address in each destination country. IIE has requested that OCS in each Fair city receive this type of “direct” freight.

After you register for the fair and complete the proper OCS forms, we will send you instructions on where to send boxes in each city, and what the charges will be.

Please do NOT ship any materials to the offices of IIE or the fair organizers.

It will be the responsibility of your carrier to deliver your materials “door-to-door” overseas to OCS.
Please make sure your carrier is able to clear customs in the countries you ship to, and make sure they can take care of duty and taxes for you. Please do NOT ship your materials as “cargo” or “door-to-airport”, because these services generally do NOT include customs clearance. Neither OCS nor IIE will be able to assist if your packages are delayed in customs or undeliverable due to improper labeling.

Visitors from the USA need to obtain a tourist visa from the PRC China Consulate in the United States before their departure. The list of PRC China Consulates in the U.S. is also available here.

Visa application upon arrival at the port of entry is unavailable. If you need an invitation letter for the purpose of applying for visa, please contact IIE.

Shangri-La Hotel, Shenzhen
East Side, Railway Station,
1002 Jianshe Road,
Shenzhen 518001,
China
Tel : (86 755) 8233 0888
Fax : (86 755) 8233 9878
Email : slz@shangri-la.com

Shenzhen was established as a Special Economic Zone in 1980. Before this, Shenzhen was a small village in South Guangdong Province. As the earliest and fastest growing Special Economic Zone in China, it has won the reputation as “The Window” of China’s opening-up drive and the “Pilot Field” for the country’s economic restructuring.

The rapid growth of the local economy owes a great deal of the vigorous inflow of overseas investment and expansion of foreign trade.

Between 1980 and 2003, GDP of Shenzhen enjoyed an average annual growth of 33.3%. In 2004, its GDP reached $42.8 billion, ranking the 5th among all mainland cities, while per capita GDP ranked the 1st in the nation. Its total import and export amount was $147.3 billion, including an export value of $77.9 billion which ranks the 1st among all mainland cities for 12 consecutive years, and import of $69.5 billion. By the end of 2004, the FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) reached $41.2 billion.

Source: NAROS

Shenzhen Government Online

North American Representative Office of Shenzhen, P.R. China (NAROS)

Shenzhen News Net (English)

Shenzhen Travel Guide

Shenzhen Airport

Katherine Fung-Surya
Director, Institute of International Education
Room 601, General Commercial Building
156-164 Des Voeux Road Central
Hong Kong
Phone: (852) 2603-5771
Fax: (852) 2603-5765
E-mail: info@iiehongkong.org or kfsurya@cuhk.edu.hk