On behalf of 2019 APAS Organising Committee, it will be our great pleasure to welcome you to the 20^th Meeting of Asia Pacific Arthroplasty Society in XiaMen, Fujian, China, from 28-31 August 2019.

We will be building on last year’s instructional program to bring you a diversity of speakers from across the globe, covering not just the usual mainstays of arthroplasty but also some more unusual but very pertinent subjects.

The meeting will reinforce and foster the APAS mission to promote advancement of science and the art of arthroplasty at an international level for the improvement of patient care, development of research and education and to facilitate the exchange of professional experience and fellowship. This meeting will be a wonderful opportunity for young orthopaedic surgeons to take advantage of a wealth of knowledge in the form of workshops, lectures, free paper sessions, symposia and presentations on recent advancements in arthroplasty.

We truly believe that magical Xiamen is the perfect place to bring you all together as colleagues, teachers, students and friends. The state-of-the-art venue, beautiful weather and glamorous city are sure to be a comfortable environment to educate, be educated and network in. We, the Organizing Committee, are looking forward to seeing you and will make every effort to ensure you have a memorable experience with all that our country and the meeting can offer you.