The IAPR Governing Board (GB), at its biennial meeting during ICPR 2014, examined and discussed two high-quality proposals for hosting ICPR 2018. The result of the GB vote was that Beijing, China will be the location of ICPR in four years’ time (following ICPR 2016 in Cancun, Mexico). The ICPR 2018 General Chair is Tieniu Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences.