Getting to Qingdao
Qingdao International Airport only has direct flights from Japan, Korea and Singapore.
- The participants are highly recommended to transfer from Beijing or Shanghai, both with one hour flight to Qingdao.
Hong Kong is also a transfer option, which is of two and half hours flight to Qingdao.
- The express train between Beijing and Qingdao takes 5.5 hours. The schedule is listed below.
Please note that the departure station is Beijing South Station. It takes 45-60 minutes taxi ride from Beijing airport to Beijing South Station, costing about about ¥120 CNY.
From Qingdao International Airport to Conference Venue
Distance from the airport to the conference hotel is 38km.
The estimated taxi fare from the airport to the conference venue is about ¥120 CNY.
It takes 40 minutes or so.
From Qingdao Train Station to Conference Venue
Distance from the train station to the conference hotel is 4km.
The estimated taxi fare from the train station to the conference venue is about ¥15 CNY.
It takes 15 minutes or so.
You may download and print out the following picture and show it to the taxi driver for your convenience.
Several frequently-used sentences with Chinese translation (including transportation, currency exchange, etc) can be downloaded
here (in both pdf and jpg).