/ world today news/ The 33rd prestigious Chinese Science Fiction Awards “Galaxy” were presented on Saturday in Yingjing County, Sichuan Province.
Bun Lu was the winner of the Medium Short Story category. Wang Nuonuo won Best Adaptation Potential and A Qué won Best Short Story. All three are young authors born after the 1990s.
A white paper on China’s online science fiction literature in 2022 was unveiled at the awards ceremony. It states that China has 42,000 new writers in the field, 72% of whom were born after the year 2000, and 70% are students or have completed a bachelor’s degree or higher. The white paper also notes that the number of online science fiction readers increased by 39.73% compared to 2021, with 70% of them being over the age of 30.
The Galaxy Awards were established in 1985 by the popular Chinese science fiction magazine Science Fiction World and first presented in 1986.
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