The 1st Asian Pacific Conference on Concept Mapping (CMC-AP 2017) will take place in Beijing, China from Sept 20-22, 2017. The theme for CMC-AP 2017 will be Learning for Understanding the World and Ourselves. With the development of technology and society, processing but not owning, memorizing, or being able to access information becomes essential. Similarly, e.g., in mathematics, doing arithmetic or more advanced integrations or differentiations is becoming less important than describing the world with mathematical concepts and abstracting mathematical concepts from the world. Meaningful learning is the key to understanding, and concept mapping helps to develop the ability to learn meaningfully. Submission Deadline: July 20, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2017 Final Camera-ready Submissions: August 10, 2017 Registration Deadline: August 10, 2017