The World Health Qigong Scientific Symposium was created by the International Health Qigong Federation in the year 2013 and two sessions had been successfully held in New York, USA and Paris, France, which has already developed into the most authoritative academic platform for worldwide Health Qigong researchers and practitioners to explore the wisdom of life, exchange academic thoughts and feel Chinese cultural charm.

The 3^rd World Health Qigong Scientific Symposium, hosted by the International Health Qigong Federation and organized by Dutch Health Qigong Association, will be held in Hague, Netherlands from September 9 to 10, 2017 aiming to further promote the international Health Qigong scientific research, promote the application of the latest scientific research achievements in Health Qigong practice and enhance the physical and mental health of the practitioners. International Health Qigong experts and scholars as well as the celebrities will be invited to carry out a wide range of cross-cultural, multi-angle, in-depth exchanges and discussion at the Symposium. The specific issues related to the thesis requirements are as follows.

I. Theme

The theme of this Symposium is “Qigong Health Cultivation and Healthy Life”. The Symposium will focus on the hot points relating to the theme, the latest research achievements and its development to hold in-depth academic exchanges, and will organize series of activities including theme-reports, special-topic reports, interactive exercises and expert dialogues.

II. Suggested theses

1. Research on the life wisdom of Health Qigong.

2. Research on healthy lifestyle of Health Qigong.

3. Research on Health Qigong connotation and values.

4. Research on Health Qigong for fitness mechanism and its effect.

5. Research on Health Qigong intervention or prevention of common chronic diseases.

6. Research on Health Qigong prescriptions.

7. Research on industrialization development of Health Qigong.

8. Research on international development strategies of Health Qigong.

III. Submitting requirements

1. The thesis being of high academic value and non-secret and non-plagiarized from others must be the original and created by the author, never published in any magazines or read at meetings and multiply submitted. The author shall be responsible for the article.

2. Thesis topic may be chosen among the suggested soliciting articles, or yet decided upon the theme.

3. Thesis, abstracts and appendix pages are requested written in Chinese and English languages in Word composition as shown in the Appendix.

IV. Deadline

1. Thesis submitting: the 15^th of June 2017.

2. Notice of selected thesis: 15^th of July 2017.

3. Symposium date: 9^th to 10^th of September 2017.

V. Thesis submitting and contact

1. Electronic format text to Symposium e-mail:keyanbu213@163.com

2. Symposium Organizing Committee:

Miss He Xin and Miss Ding Liling, Science and Health Cultivation Committee of the International Health Qigong Federation, A No. 14, Zhongqu, Tiantandongli, Dongchengqu 100061，Beijing，China.

Tel: 86-10-67052078, 67052033;

Fax: 86-10-67052077

VI. Other matters

1. The Symposium Organizing Committee is entitled to modify or edit the theses and recommend them to the institutions such as the collect and store up, index and publication unless the author states otherwise to the Organizing Committee.

2. All theses shall be reviewed and commented by the Symposium academic members and listed in this Symposium thesis volume if selected. The authors of the selected theses can participate in the Symposium at their own expense.

3.  Several theme-reporting theses and several special-topic reporting theses will be decided on the basis of the selected theses. The Organizing Committee shall finance 1 major author of each selected theses in the following aspects:

major author of theme-reporting thesis: round trip international travel fairs and board and lodging during the Symposium

major author of special-topic reporting thesis: board and lodging during the Symposium.

Appendix

Requirements of Symposium theses for the 3^rd World Health Qigong Scientific Symposium 2017 (download) /uploadfile/file/20170322/20170322092300_21162.doc

Science and Health Cultivation Committee of IHQF