RFID is a progressive wireless technology and new discoveries keep coming up. Manufacturers have their own advantages. RFID has an extensive application. RFID ticket in the World Cup staged in Germany is only a tip of iceberg for its application. In addition to integration with other wireless technologies, RFID application will have a bright future.

　　Senior Seminar on 5th RFID Application (www.ichina2008.org) sponsored by the Ministry of Information Industry Packaging Office and China Electronic Appliance Company has been dedicated to RFID’s application in China. It takes into consideration actual situation of IT application and capacity of IT industry in China and attempts at pushing forward local application of RFID and development of local RFID industry in a practical way. The seminar has been highly praised by the industry for its practicality and keen insights which was always its focus in the past four years. It has been actively participated by manufacturers such as Huawei and ZTE and clients from logistics and packaging industries and greatly supported by manufacturers such as IBM, BEA, Microsoft, ST, Yuanwanggu, Shenzhen Huitian, TAGSYS, LITI, SAP, Shanghai Shenbo and Beijing Weishen in the industry.

　　The 5th RFID seminar will be held concurrently with 68th China Electronic Fair, with the focus on how to reduce RFID’s comprehensive implementation cost from the entire architecture including hardware, software and system integration. Your participation is highly appreciated and we hope that our interaction and discussion will help to boost the development of RFID in China and enable enterprises to adopt this technology spontaneously, which is the key for extensive application of RFID.