Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted and honored to introduce you to the 20th Conference of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL), which will take place at China National Convention Center, on 25-28 March 2010 in Beijing, China. We will bring together a distinguished faculty of renowned specialists from Asia Pacific and around the world to this conference with the theme "Exploring the Frontiers".

APASL has grown as the leading conference focusing on remarkable progress in liver disease, aimed to provide the latest scientific and evidence-based research result that will be applicable to the everyday clinical practice. It provides an excellent opportunity to share and exchange experiences especially from the view of Asian Pacific countries. These elements are essential to pave a way for better development of Hepatology.

We planned to have a three-day core program to provide an overview of varies liver diseases with the State-of-the Art Lectures on hot-off-the-press issues. Besides, Postgraduate Courses and Morning Sessions will be designed for the in-depth discussion on particular topics.

Free paper and poster presentation is always the soul of the conference to share research findings and there will be several awards available for application aimed to support young scientists to attend the conference and encourage scientific research.

We thus enthusiastically invite you to submit abstract and join us in this conference as well as our blooming city – the Ancient Capital of China.

We look forward to welcoming you in Beijing!

Ji-Dong Jia, MD, PHD President APASL 2010	Hui Zhuang, MD, PHD Scientific Committee Chairman APASL 2010