21st Beijing International Book Festival: Reading in Beijing and the Five Continents

People’s Daily Online, Beijing, June 15th (Reporter Dong Zhaorui) On June 15th, the 21st Beijing International Book Festival officially opened at the National Convention Center. It is understood that the theme of this year’s book festival is “Reading in Beijing and the Five Continents”. There are 3 functional areas, 10 themed areas, in the exhibition area, exhibition area and activity area. During the exhibition period, a series of activities such as cultural lectures and “Bookstore Night” will be held. This book festival will last until the 18th.

The 21st Beijing International Book Festival opens.Photo by People’s Daily Online reporter Dong Zhaorui

The reporter learned that this book festival has strengthened the functions of promoting consumption and benefiting the people’s livelihood. 50% of the main venue area has been set up as a publication exhibition area, bringing together more than 400 Chinese and foreign publishing organizations to showcase and sell more than 100,000 high-quality publications. Readers can not only participate in fun and interesting activities, but also enjoy discounts on some books. In addition, this book festival also opened online sales areas on platforms such as JD.com and Dangdang.

The 21st Beijing International Book Festival opens.Photo by People’s Daily Online reporter Dong Zhaorui

At the site of the book festival, the themed publications area focused on displaying more than 2,000 titles and nearly 10,000 volumes of various books such as the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and eulogized the new era and sang the main theme with rich and colorful themed publications. The Capital Publishing Achievements Exhibition in the New Era highlights various award-winning publications in Beijing over the past ten years, with a total of 345 titles, involving 248 awards including major awards, key projects, fund support, and recommendation lists, among which the “Five One Project” award , China Publishing Government Award, China Excellent Publication Award, Mao Dun Literature Award, and China Good Books totaled 74 items, accounting for 30% of all awards.

The 21st Beijing International Book Festival opens.Photo by People’s Daily Online reporter Dong Zhaorui

In the excellent traditional Chinese culture exhibition area, nearly a thousand excellent traditional cultural boutique publications from well-known publishing units across the country are displayed intensively. On the south side of the exhibition area, there are also exhibitions such as “Jade Chu Liufang – Ancient Chinese Book Decoration Art Exhibition”, “The Beauty of the Ancient Capital in Light and Shadow – Beijing Old Photo Exhibition”. Not only is there traditional Chinese culture, this year’s book festival also set up a sales area for imported original books for the first time, selecting 3,000 best-selling books from 300 well-known overseas publishing houses, and introducing well-known overseas IPs such as Harry Potter to satisfy readers of all ages. book needs.

The 21st Beijing International Book Festival opens.Photo by People’s Daily Online reporter Dong Zhaorui

In addition to the main venue of the National Convention Center, this book festival also set up offline branches in Qianmen Commercial Street and large-scale physical bookstores in the “16+1” area of ​​the city. The event brought together 88 physical bookstores and held more than 140 online and offline sessions. Activities, recommend thousands of high-quality books. In addition, the “Bookstore Night” event will be held from June 16th to 18th, from 16:30 to 20:30 every day, at Qianmen Shuxiang Shiye and PAGEONE Bookstore (Beijing Fangdian). Not only that, in addition to the book fair, this book festival also specially invites Wang Meng, Li Zhongjie and other famous experts to bring readers 10 high-quality and wide-ranging cultural feasts around cultural self-confidence and self-improvement.

(Editors in charge: Dong Zhaorui, Gao Xing)

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