Following the great success of the first IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium held in Kyoto, Japan, in March 2008, we are excited to announce the Pacific Visualization Symposium 2009, which will take place in Beijing, China. PacificVis is an IEEE VGTC sponsored international visualization symposium held in the Asian-Pacific region, with the objective to foster greater exchange between visualization researchers and practitioners, and to draw more researchers in the Asian-Pacific region to enter this rapidly growing area of research.