Contributed by: Jifeng Zhang

Dear Colleagues:

We like to draw your attention to the 14th World Congress of IFAC to be
held in Beijing, China, from July 5 to July 9,1999. The Beijing Congress,
being the last IFAC Congress in the 20th century, will serve as a  unique
forum for the international control community to review the great impact
of automation on the elapsing century and to look forward to its development
in the next century.

The Congress provides a spectrum of categories for technical presentations,
including plenary lectures, survey papers, regular papers of both lecture
and poster session types, panel discussions and case studies. Immediately
preceding the formal opening of the Congress, tutorials are being offered
to provide participants an opportunity to learn new principles, methodologies,
technologies, and applications that have been developed and/or are developing
in recent years. For more information, please visit our IFAC'99 homepages:

   http://www.ia.ac.cn/ifac99/ifac99.html
   http://iss03.ac.cn/ifac99/ifac99.html

The Beijing Congress will be the first IFAC Congress to be held in a
developing country. As one of the oldest capitals and one of the fastest
developing cities in the world, Beijing affords tourist attractions for the
participants and their guests.

We look forward to seeing our old and new friends in Beijing in 1999.

Jifeng Zhang
IFAC'99 IPC Secretariat