Upcoming Events

March 18, 2007
The AVS Fifth Anniversary, Industrialization Fruit Show and Investment Summit will be held at Fragrant Hill Hotel, Fragrant Hills, Being, China.


Past Events

Dec 8-10 , 2005
The 15st meeting of AVS was held in Qingdao.

June 9-11, 2005
The 13st meeting of AVS was held in Beijing.

Mar 9-11, 2005
The 12st meeting of AVS was held in Chengdu.


Dec 10-12, 2004
The 11th meeting of AVS was held in Beijing.

Sep 10-12, 2004
The 10th meeting of AVS was held in Suzhou.

June 18-20, 2004
The 9th meeting of AVS was held at Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

March 30-31, 2004
The 8th meeting of AVS was held at Ming Wah International Convention Centre in Shenzhen.


Dec 20, 2003
The China AV Industry Forum¡¯2003 was held at Greatwall Hotel in Beijing.

Dec 18-19, 2003
The 7th meeting of AVS was held at Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

Oct 8-10, 2003
The 6th Meeting of AVS was held in Hangzhou.

Sept 22, 2003

Audio group held a work draft meeting in Beijing.

Aug 1, 2003
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The ¡°First Audio Video Technology and Standard Industry Forum for Shenzhen¡± was held in Shenzhen

July 30, 2003:
¡°The First Audio Video Technology and Standard Industry Forum (AVS Forum¡¯2003)¡± was held at the Tianhong Plaza Hotel

July 27-29, 2003:
The 5th meeting of AVS was held at Beihang University

July 12, 2003
Entrusted by Science and Technology Department of MII (Ministry of Information Industry), Department of High and New Technology and Industrialisation of Ministry of Science and Technology and CAS Bureau of High-tech Research and Development, CAE the Division of Information and electronic engineering presided the AVS assessing meeting.

July 2, 2003
National Center of Test and Metrology for Radio and Television of the SARFT (State Administration of Radio Film and Television) tested the AVS system, set the MPEG-2 system as the reference frame

June 2003
On the JVT meeting at Geneva, CAS Institute of Computing Technology was ascertained to be responsible for the maintenance and testing of video coding software.

Mar 27-28, 2003
the 4th meeting of AVS was held in Wuhan
Dec 9, 2002
Department of Science and Technology of MII(Ministry of Information Industry) issued the notice of Setting up ¡°Audio Video Coding Standard Working Group¡± and assigned the task of the group.

Dec 19-20, 2002
The 3rd meeting of AVS was held at Tsinghua Unisplendour International Exchange Center Hotel in Beijing

Oct 21-25, 2002
The 62nd MPEG meeting and the 28th JPEG meeting hosted by China were held at Pudong in Shanghai

Aug 23-24, 2002
The first meeting of AVS was held in Beijing. During the meeting, decision was made that AVS and MPEG-China were united, and both names which would be used in domestic and international were kept. Website of AVS opened to the members formally.

June 21, 2002
¡°Audio Video Coding Standard Workgroup¡± was set up in Beijing.

June 11, 2002
Science and Technology Department of MII released a bulletin about setting up ¡°Audio Video Coding Standard Workgroup¡± on China Electronics News

May 25, 2002
Preparing meeting of AVS was held at Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences

April 30, 2002
In the application guide to the second task of 863 Program, Processing Technology and Application Platform for Digital Media was set up as the key project of Info-Tech Software and Hardware System.

March 18-20, 2002
The 178th Xiangshan Science Conference was held in Beijing, its title was ¡°Broad-band Network and Security Stream Media Technology¡±

March 2002
In the 7th JVT meeting, AVS workgroup proposed a National Comments (JVT-G035) to ask JVT holding current RFB regulation. Meanwhile, with 24 international enterprises and 7 representative enterprise including (Amoisonic, Changhong, Datang, Hair, Huawei, Lenovo, SVA), AVS workgroup proposed a proposal of Support for JVT Royalty Free Baseline

May 2001
Chinese R&D units started to track and participate in the establishment of JVT standard. ICT of CAS, Tsinghua University and Microsoft Research Asia etc. were invited.

July 2000
The 53rd MPEG meeting was held successfully in Beijing.

July 1999
With the imbursement of 863-306, a delegation including 7 members was sent to the 48th MPEG meeting. We submitted 4 proposals before the meeting and 2 proposals were preached. It was our first time to propose to MPEG.

1998
MPEG-China was set up. Forum was held every two months, on which each unit introduces his work and discuss new proposals.

1996
With the imbursement of Multi-media Branch of National Committee for Information Technology Standardization and 863 Program Intelligent Computing System, Chinese researchers start to track the international standard and technology. Prof. Gao Wen was assigned as the HoD.

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