History of APL (ALPF) 

On 25^th of October , 2002 ,when the 66^th IEC General meeting was held in Beijing, the representatives of the technical committees on lightning protection IEC-TC81 of China, Japan and Korea discussed the cooperation between three countries in the field of lightning protection techniques and the lightning protection standardization . As the effective method of the cooperation, Mr.Miki proposed holding a meeting between three countries, which includes information exchanges on lightning protection technology and standardization. According to the above discussion, the first meeting ,which was named as "The 1^st Asian Lightning Protection and Standardization Forum", was held in Beijing, China on 28^th-29^th of October, 2003. As a result of later discussion between the representatives of three countries, the ALPF ( Asian Lightning Protection Forum) was established formally as a non-profitable organization. Thereafter the ALPFs were held almost every year in the order of Korea, Japan and China.
Large changes were made at 7^th Forum, which was held in Chengdu, China 2^nd -4^th of November,2011. In order to open the forum more widely in the world, the scopes and the members of the organizing committee were widely extended. Also the name of the Forum was changed from the ALPF to the APL( Asia-Pacific International Conference on Lightning).