DEIS has technically co-sponsored this conference since its inception in 2008. Now, ICHVE is a fully sponsored DEIS event held every 2 years, once in China and once elsewhere in the world. The demands for a large amount of electrical energy are resulting in new strategies for developing high voltage power systems, transmission lines, substations, and appropriate equipment. In many countries, the new energy strategies require the planning and construction of UHV ac and dc transmission systems. ICHVE provides an excellent opportunity for high voltage engineering scientists, researchers, faculty, industrial representatives and students to share their state-of-art research on topics such as electromagnetic fields; transients, grounding, and EMC; sensing, monitoring and diagnostics; high voltage testing and measurement; aging, space charge, and maintenance; materials and insulation systems; HVDC technologies; industrial applications.