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one of the supporting activities of the 2024 beijing cultural forum, the "i and ditan" beijing book fair will be held in ditan park from september 13 to september 23. during the book fair, more than 100 cultural activities will be launched, including the ditan cultural lecture hall and the mid-autumn night of books.

the reporter learned from the organizer that the total exhibition area of ​​this book fair is about 18,000 square meters, an increase of 3,000 square meters from 2023. there are 10 exhibition areas, 3 activity areas and 3 supporting service points. it brings together more than 330 publishing institutions, physical bookstores, and special exhibitors from all over the country. there are 400,000 kinds of books on display, setting a new record.

the book fair has ten exhibition areas, including thematic publishing special exhibition area, "old books and new knowledge" area, physical bookstore block, famous publishing house boutique exhibition and sales area, national reading promotion area, special book block, children's book and parent-child reading area, foreign language original book area, special discount book exhibition and sales area, and cultural and creative products area.

the special exhibition area of ​​themed publishing will carry out thematic book exhibitions and sales and key books and book lists around the 75th anniversary of the founding of new china. among them are themed books reflecting current political hotspots such as chinese-style modernization and new quality productivity, such as "understanding chinese-style modernization: scientific connotation and development path", "traditional culture and chinese-style modernization", "new quality productivity empowers chinese-style modernization", "new quality productivity: new momentum for development" and other key books, as well as "beijing good books" and "china good books" and other excellent publications, such as "top", "dunhuang", "tracing the origin of chinese civilization", "ana river bank", etc. the ditan book fair will also focus on launching books on the theme of beijing's central axis, such as the "beijing central axis cultural tour" series of beijing publishing group, "beijing central axis" of huawen publishing house, and "swifts flying over the central axis" of beijing juvenile and children's publishing house, etc., to help readers have a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the origin, development, architectural features, cultural connotations and other aspects of the beijing central axis, and feel the unique charm of the beijing central axis.

the exhibition area of ​​famous publishing houses attracted more than 140 publishing units from 15 provinces and cities across the country, including beijing-tianjin-hebei, jiangsu-zhejiang-shanghai, anhui, and shandong. according to reports, well-known national publishing units such as citic publishing group, beijing publishing group, people's publishing house, people's posts and telecommunications publishing house, zhonghua book company, people's literature publishing house, and sanlian bookstore continued to participate in the exhibition, and key publishing houses such as china social sciences press and shanghai translation publishing house were invited to participate for the first time. the exhibition and sales covered a wide range of fields, including popular and academic works. "a brief reader of the history of chinese civilization", "new quality productivity", "(new) outline of the general history of china", the new edition of "red rock", "letters from the world", "five thousand years of detail: a history of china for ordinary people", "the world pattern: the world at the crossroads of civilization transformation", "china children's encyclopedia", "a brief history of laughing food" and other high-quality and fine books, together with various award-winning works, famous chinese and foreign works, and authoritative academic works, were displayed together, bringing readers a large number of excellent publications with taste and connotation.

the famous publishing house boutique exhibition area has opened the "editor recommendation zone" for the first time. in this zone, readers will enjoy unprecedented treatment and have in-depth face-to-face conversations with senior editors from many well-known publishing houses, revealing the sparks of inspiration jumping between the lines and the little-known creation process behind the books. this innovative measure is not only an innovative attempt to innovate the traditional book exhibition model, but also a deep upgrade of readers' reading experience.

the physical bookstore block attracted 135 physical bookstores to participate in the exhibition, which is 1.5 times the number of last year. there are many beijing demonstration and specialty bookstores, such as fengrushong, hanfenlou, forbidden city, foreign language teaching and research, sanlian, pageone, zhongshuge, as well as specialty bookstores outside beijing, such as chengdu panda bookstore, nanjing jieziyuan bookstore, and hangzhou boku bookstore. fine books and special cultural and creative products will be on display one after another.

the ditan book fair was founded in the 1990s and is a beautiful memory in the cultural life of the capital's citizens. in 2023, as a supporting event for the beijing cultural forum, the ditan park beijing book fair returned after a 10-year absence, with the theme of "me and ditan". it has received more than 480,000 readers in total, setting off a new wave of reading among the people.

source: beijing daily client

reporter: lu yanxia