1. Tour No.1: half day tour to Sanxingdui Wonder (Ancient City) and Giant Panda Base (Panda Breeding Area), cost included in the normal registration fee.
2. Tour No.2 (optional): three-day tour to Jiuzhai Gou and Huanglong National Park, this tour must be booked (together with the registration fee) before Sept. 10 to guarantee your ticket. Cost: US$550 (covering return air-tickets, land transportation, entrance tickets, 4/5 star hotel, eating, insurance, English tour guide).
3. Tour No.3 (optional): two-day tour to Leshan Giant Buddha and Mountain Emei, this tour must be booked (together with the registration fee) before Sept. 10 to guarantee your ticket. Cost: US$100 (covering land transportation, entrance tickets, 4-star hotel, eating, insurance, English tour guide).
4. Tour No.4 (optional): One-day tour to Mountain Qingcheng and Dujiangyan Irrigation System, this tour must be booked (together with the registration fee) before Sept. 10 to guarantee your ticket. Cost: US$50 (covering transportation, entrance tickets, eating, insurance, English tour guide).

Note 1: Due to the uncertainty on the seasonal discounts related to hotel, air-tickets and other tour issues, the fees indicated in Tour 2-4 are estimated average cost. However, you are requested to pay the required amount at the time of registration. The balance will be returned to you, or you may be asked to pay the extra cost, at the time you arrived at Chengdu for ITW'06.

Note 2: All optional tours start on Friday, October 27, 2006. For example, for Jiuzhai Gou and Huanglong National Park tour (No.2), it will start on Friday morning, October 27, 2006, and will return to Chengdu on October 29, 2006 (at approximately 6:00pm, but will be finalized later).

Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan Province and is the cultural and industrial center for the agricultural Chengdu Plain. Chengdu was one of the first centers of printing in China and has been famous for its luxurious satins, brocades, and lacquer ware since the 13th century. Chengdu is also home to the Chengdu Giant Panda Research Base (Chengdu Panda Breeding Area), one of the most important centers in the world for the captive conservation of the Giant Panda. The Research Centre has evolved into China Panda City. Panda City encompasses a museum, as well as the Chengdu Zoo. Sichuan Province, located in southwest China, is bordered by the Tibetan Plateau in the west and by the Three Gorges and the Yangtze River in the east. Sichuan is known as the "Land of Abundance" and has four places on the World Cultural and Natural Heritage List: Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area, Huang Long Valley (Yellow Dragon Valley), Mount Emeishan (including the Leshan Giant Buddha) and Dujiang Yan (including Qing Cheng Mountain). Visitors to this province experience a wide variety of beautiful landscapes including plateaus, mountains, ravines, basins, hills, plains, rivers, lakes, hot springs, waterfalls and limestone caves. In addition, tourists can visit important historic relics and taste the delicious spicy Sichuan Cuisine.

Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Guangzhou are four internationally connected cities in China. From these four cities, there are regular flights to Chengdu via Chinese airlines, typically four or more flights every day. Chengdu is the capital city of Sichuan Province.
There are also direct international flights to Chengdu, such as from Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, Bangkok, Singapore, Seoul, and so on.

Noted by the UN as one of the greatest natural legacies in the world. Jiuzhaigou is located in the Nanping county of Aba province which lies 450 kilomiles away from Chengdu. With the total area of over 72,000 hectares, it is named as JiuZhaigou because there were 9 "Zang" (a Chinese clan) stockaded villages. The tourist spot is divided into 5 scenic areas including Baojing Rock, Shuzheng, Rizi, Jian Rock, Chang Sea and ZhaYu. Most of the spots are found within the 3main Y-shaped gaps. Besides, there are more than 100 highland lakes scattered like a terraced field. The turquoise water is clear and fresh. In particular, Jiuzhaigou's KeSiTe image, the magnificent waterfall and fountain are attractive sites that Jiuzhaigou is described as "kingdom of fairy tale".

In northern Sichuan,400KM from the Chengdu,close to the Gansu border, is Huanglong. If you are keen on the beauty of nature with primitive taste, Huanglong is the ideal place to go. There you can see a variety of mountain structures, lush woods, colourful flowers, and crystal waters, just like scrolls of classical paintings. Huanglong or the Yellow Dragon Temple Scenic Area, is situated in the Yellow Dragon Village north of Songpan County after being built in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Originally the building consisted of three temples, the front temple, the middle temple and the rear temple. But only the rear temple still stands.

It is 156 kilometers far from Chengdu city. The principal peak---Golden Summit soars mightily into the clouds. In the mountain, ones look over the snowy peaks in the west, eastern luxuriant plains, seems majestic and astonishing. It is blessed with clouds Sea, Sunrise, Buddha Rays, Saint Lamps -- these four great spectacles. Further, the site also contains 30 or so temples which elegantly express the 2000 years of cultural history abounding in the region. In 1996, it was ranked in "the world Cultural & Natural Heritage" by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization).
Leshan lies about 104 miles ( 167km ) south of Chengdu and is renowned for its Great Buddha, the colossal stoene statue of Maitreya, which stands on the bank of the River Minjiang. Started in 713 AD, by the Buddhist monk Haitong who organized fund raising and hired workers; it took ninety years to complete. He hoped that the presence of the Great Buddha image would protect the boatmen who traversed the treacherous river by pacifying the swift currents. A building was built to protect the statue, but was destroyed during a Ming Dynasty war. The Buddha is 234 feet high, with shoulders that are 92 feet wide; the head is 48 feet high, while each of the ears is 23 feet long.

Du_Jiang_Yan irrigation System, it is in the list of world heritage, lies in the west of Chengdu, about one hour drive. During the Warring States Period in 256 BC, the governor of the Shu Prefecture Li Bing and his son led the people to build the large water conservancy works to control flooding on the Chengdu plains. Up to now, 2,250 years have passed, and the works still play a significant role in agriculture on the Chengdu plains. It is a historical wonder of science and technology. Known as a "field Museum of lrrigation Works", Dujianyan was listed in the UN Education scientific and cultural Organization's List of World Heritage in 2000.
Qingcheng Mountain, one of the birthplaces of Taoism, a place of an integration of the religious culture and natural scenery. In 2000, Qingcheng Mountain was listed in the UN Educational scientific and cultural Organization's List of World Heritage.

Sanxingdui Brilliant Sanxingdui, the ruins of the capital of the ancient Shu, a Kingdom over 4.000 years ago, is located in Guanghan City, 39 km apart from Chengdu. Among the relics excavated, six pieces are evaluated as national treasures. The ancient casting art of bronze was found to be on a par with that unearthed in Terra-Cotta warriors and Horses pit of Qin shihuang Mausoleum. The site was ranked by the State Council of PRC among the Top National Culture-Preservatory Bases in January 1988.

The area is an outdoor breeding where pandas of all ages, as well as black neck cranes, white cranes, etc are bred. They enjoy the peaceful ecological envionment tailor-made for them.

Du Fu Thatched Hut Old Chengdu lifestyle of leisure and idleness feeds off the poems written here by the well-traveled Tang master Du Fu, who retreated to the town in 759 B.C. to escape the wars in the central regions, and the poverty that continued to dog him. At the popular park and tourist site called Dufu's hut (Dufu caotang), he built his fabled "chairmen", literally made of brushwood, and often translated as " my humble abode." The hut is long gone, but the site has been maintained as a shrine since the Song, and in the last few hundred years has gradually accumulated memorial inscriptions of emperors and scholars trying to link their names to Dufu's legend.
Wu Hou Temple Everyone in Chengdu tells visitors to hit the Wu Hou Ci (Marquis Wu Shrine), a monument to heroes from the Three Kingdoms period who brought honor to the region traditionally known as the Shu (Syoku) kingdom. Wu Hou is a reference to the mysterious military strategist Zhu Geliang (Syo katsu koumei), alias Great Brightness, who was talked out of a life of Taoist quietude to advise the hero Liu Bei (Ryuu bi) in his attempt to unite China. Liu Bei's grave mound is also here, where he died in 223 BC, two years after taking up the reins as emperor of the allied kingdoms of Wu and Shu in Chengdu.