Recent years have seen rapid advances in various grid-related technologies, grid middleware as well as grid applications. The GCC conference has become one of the world-wide largest scientific events in the area of grid and cooperative computing. The 7th international conference on grid and cooperative computing (GCC2008) is to be held Oct. 24-26, 2008 in Shenzhen, China. Shenzhen is situated in the southern province of Guangdong, which borders Hong Kong.