He Jianming, a Suzhou-native reportage writer and vice chairman of China Writers Association, said at the event that he expects to see more works about the people and the daily life in the YRD region. He took SIP for example, saying that its typical modernization trajectory can be made into a great epic.

He suggested litterateurs in the region take more chances to share their ideas and learn experience from each other to jointly create an environment favoring literary creation.