During the Congress, the sun rises at 5:44 a.m. and sets at 18:43 p.m. The following table is the time difference between Beijing and other major cities (listed in alphabetic order):

Beijing 0		Lisbon -8h
Amsterdam -7h		London -8h
Athens -6h		Los Angles -16h
Baghdad -5h		Manila 0
Bern -7h		Mexico City -14h
Brussels -7h		Moscow -5h
Buenos Aires -11h		Nairobi -5h
Cairo -6h		New York -13h
Calcutta -2:30h		Oslo -7h
Casablanca -8h		Paris -7h
Chicago -14h		Rio de Janeiro -11h
Dublin -8h		Rome -7h
Franjfurt -7h		Santiago -12h
Hong Kong 0		Seoul +1h
Istanbul -6h		Teheran -4:30h
Jerusalem -6h		Tokyo +1h
Lima -13h		Wellington +4h

For cities applying the light--saving time, an hour should be added to the relevent times indicated in this list.