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Qilu Literary Festival and 2017 Shandong Books Fair to kick off

2017/7/24 16:55:56   source:Sdchina.com

Qilu Literary Festival and 2017 Books Fair is expected to be inaugurated on July 20, according to a news conference held recently. The event will continue until August 6 across the province.

The main venue in Shandong’s City of Books covers near 20,000 square meters of land for 14 exhibition areas with over two hundred thousand books and audio and video products, said Hu Peng, a director and member of the Party Committee of Shandong Publishing Group Corporation.

During the festival, 670 activities will be held, such as book sales and exhibitions, ceremonies for books' first issuing, book-signing events, culture salon, parent-child activities, speech and recitation activities and exhibition and performance.

Except the main venue in Shandong's City of Books, other 134 venues can be found in Xinhua Bookstores across the province. 34 events will be held in the main venue while some famous writers will be invited to other venues. For purpose of carrying out the cultural policy benefiting people, Shandong began to hand out book token from July 19. Two-million-yuan-worth book tokens are expected to be hand out during the festival.

The event is co-sponsored by the Publicity Department of the CPC Shandong Provincial Committee, Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of Shandong Province, Shandong Sub-council of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and Shandong Publication Group Corporation, and co-hosted by the Publicity Department of the CPC Jinan Municipal Committee, Jinan Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film, TV, Press and Publication and Shandong Xinhua Bookstore Group.

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