The members of Beijing Jiaotong University - University of Cincinnati Future Cities Co-Laboratory made a special topic speech at the fifty-six annual meeting of ACSP in Portland, with the title of the recent growth of high speed rail in China can be a driving force in promoting coordinate metropolitan development. This special topic had received extensive attention from scholars at home and abroad, and expanded the academic influence of Beijing Jiaotong University in the international urban planning and transportation field. At the same time , Professor Jason Cao, chairman of the IACP expressed sincere thanks for thoughtful and meticulous work of the convention to delegates of Beijing Jiaotong University which was the organizer in 10th IACP. The members participating in the ACSP were deans, and famous professors who majors in urban and rural planning and related professional areas in the United States .This meeting is the highest academic level professional education academic conference in urban planning area in the North American.
