Conference report: Vision China 2017

I was honoured at the end of July to be invited by Professor Jia Qu, Dean of School of Ophthalmology and Optometry & Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, to speak at Vision China 2017 International Forum on the Innovation and Development of Vision Health.

The venue, Hangzhou International Expo Centre, will have been seen previously by most readers as the venue for last year’s G20 Summit. Despite its marble lined floors and walls and palatial surroundings we were proudly informed that it took only a year to build. And if, like me, until a few months ago you had never heard of Hangzhou it is a small city by Chinese standards of a mere 9.2 million people (that is about the size of London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast combined) about 200km south of Shanghai.