Introduction
 
 
 　　The Tenth International Symposium on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon (MENU2004) will be held in Beijing, China from August 29-Sept 4, 2004. It is in a series held previously in Karlsruhe (1983), Los Alamos (1987), Gatchina/Leningrad (1989), Bad Honnef (1991), Boulder (1993), Blaubeuren (1995), Vancouver (1997), Zuoz (1999), and Washington DC (2001).
 
　　The scientific topics of the symposium will cover a wide-range and the most recent experimental and theoretical developments in meson-nucleon physics, baryon spectroscopy, photo/electro -production of mesons, dibaryons, structure of the nucleon, chiral symmetry-based effective field theories, and QCD-inspired quark models of hadrons, etc.