The 36th Hong Kong Book Fair, hosted by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, opened on the 15th at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The annual theme of this book fair is "Reading the World from Hong Kong: Cultural and Creative Inheritance, Enjoying Life". 55 mainland publishing and cultural units bring 16000 high-quality books to Hong Kong for exhibition and sale.
The Acting Chief Secretary for Administration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, Cho Wing hing, stated that the Hong Kong Book Fair is an important platform for promoting a reading culture and a concentrated presentation of Hong Kong's cultural soft power. This year's book fair, together with the "Cultural July · Joyful Reading Summer", has launched over 600 cultural activities, making it a rich and exciting cultural feast.
Hong Kong Trade Development Council Chairman Frederick Ma stated that the Hong Kong Book Fair is not only one of the most influential cultural events in Asia, but also an important platform for connecting different cultures and promoting exchanges and mutual learning. Writers, scholars, and cultural figures from around the world gather in Hong Kong to exchange and share ideas, further highlighting Hong Kong's unique advantages as a center for cultural and artistic exchanges between China and foreign countries.
The Hong Kong Book Fair is an important platform for cultural exchange between mainland China and Hong Kong, as well as for connecting with overseas markets. The total exhibition area of mainland publishing units at this book fair is 544 square meters, with the core positioning of "boutique display, cultural mutual learning, and industrial cooperation". Participating units include publishing groups, local publishing houses, academic societies of universities, and distribution institutions, showcasing a wide variety of books. The exhibition area adopts a combination model of "one themed provincial exhibition area+three characteristic exhibition areas" to comprehensively showcase the high-quality development achievements of mainland publishing in the new era.
This year's book fair has set Yunnan as the theme province for the mainland exhibition area, with the core theme of "Drinking the same river and reading ten thousand books together". During the book fair, there will be a visual exhibition of illustrations and images of Yunnan edition books, and special sharing activities such as "What is Yunnan" and "What is My Heart's Direction? There is a Life called Yunnan" will be launched. Ethnic song and dance performances and intangible cultural heritage handicrafts will be arranged for on-site display, showcasing the rich ethnic customs and cultural charm of Yunnan from multiple perspectives, and continuously deepening the two-way exchange and cooperation between Yunnan and Hong Kong in publishing, cultural tourism, and creative industries.
This year coincides with the 105th anniversary of the founding of the CPC and the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March. The mainland exhibition area displays a number of party history, long march documentary, revolutionary literature books, leading readers to look back on the century long struggle and feel the spirit of the great Long March.
This year's Hong Kong Book Fair will last until the 21st and feature a series of lectures on 8 different themes. The "Famous Writers Lecture Series" will invite Su Tong, Liu Zhenyun, Bi Feiyu and others to participate in sharing. In addition, the book fair will continue to establish a "cultural and creative space". Among them, the Fujian Pavilion organized 10 cultural and creative enterprises to make their debut, exhibiting Dehua ceramics, Shoushan stone carvings and other art pieces; The Hangzhou exhibition group brought intangible cultural heritage crafts such as mortise and tenon, traditional printing crafts, as well as trendy toys and cultural and creative products with West Lake as the theme. (Looking into the New Era)