The 7th Jiangsu Book Fair themed "Starting a Wonderful Life with Reading" concluded at Suzhou International Expo Centre on July 16. During the four-day event, more than 100,000 books were displayed and over 200 activities held. Based on the previous six sessions, this year’s book fair featured a highlighted role as a platform for guiding reading, promoting communication among peers, sharing opinions and making explorations for further development.
 
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Family Reading Pavilion: to stimulate children's interest in reading


Children and teenagers were treated to 18,000 books and over 100 reading activities during the fair. Many famous Chinese authors of children’s books, including Cao Wenxuan, Huang Beijia, Qi Zhi, Wang Yimei and Shen Shixi, were present at the reading promotion activities and interacted with the readers.

The "International Salon on Picture Book Creation and Reading" and the "Sharing Session on Graded Reading and Popularizing Reading in Schools" were held. In addition, 23 members of Jiangsu Children's Newspaper and Periodical Reading Promotion Alliance hosted over 30 events, such as family reading, consulting and classic reciting events as well as games, scientific experiments, little reporters’ speeches, workshop on writing and recommendation of newspapers and periodicals.