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Over 3,000 titles and 50 publishing houses from China are being showcased at the Gaudeamus International Book Fair that kicked off on Wednesday in Bucharest, capital of Romania.
It is the first time in Gaudeamus' 23-year history that China, an Asian country, is in focus as the guest of honor.
China's being the guest of honor at the Gaudeamus book fair is "a special moment" that will further ties between China and Romania, Chinese Ambassador to Romania Xu Feihong told the opening of the Chinese stand at the fair.
Ovidiu Miculescu, president and CEO of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation, the book fair organizer, called the presence of so many titles by Chinese publishing houses a proof that "the strongest bonds between countries are achieved through culture."
"Culture is the pillar of existence and two such pillars make a beautiful bridge between two countries," Miculescu.
Across the large Chinese book stand, the interest showed by Romanians in Chinese calligraphy, art and history is obvious: people are watching a Chinese lady printing traditional patterns in red ink and eagerly ask if they can take them home, while others spend long time in front of traditional paintings, mesmerized by the refined lines, and meticulously scrutinize the exhibits showing the history of printing.
A promotion ceremony was held for the book "The Governance of China".
Visitors read Chinese books at the 39th International Book Fair in Zagreb, Croatia, Nov. 12, 2016. The six-day fair, which kicked off on Tuesday, attracted more than 300 publishers from 12 countries and regions. Photo: Xinhua/Miso Lisanin
"The book is a key to understand the new Chinese generation of leaders and their governing strategy and to know where China has come from and where it is heading to," said Yan Xiaohong, deputy head of China's State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT).
Mihai Nagy, deputy director of the Romanian Cultural Institute, said that this book would interest readers because "it brings forward social, political and economic hypotheses such as the Silk Road, worth putting into practice again in our contemporary time."
Also on show is the book "Step by Step" by Klaus Iohannis, the Romanian president, which has been translated into Chinese by Dong Xixiao, a Romanian teacher at Beijing Foreign Studies University.
Tan Yue, president of the China Publishing Group, said "distance never hindered the Romanian-Chinese relations" and recent years have seen closer cultural ties between both countries.
He said he has extended invitation to Romanian publishers to participate in next Beijing book fair and to get to know more of the Chinese culture and to promote cultural exchanges.
(APD)
