The Children's History Encyclopedia Of the National Museum of China is very popular with children. Xinhua News Agency
Readers read at Zhong Shu Ge Bookstore in Zunyi City, Guizhou Province. Xinhua News Agency
【Striving for a new journey, building a new era of meritorious service, great change】
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games have just come to an end, the ice and snow on the Shougang Ski Jump have melted, but the Shougang Park in Shijingshan, Beijing, has not diminished. These days, the most visited place in the park is a newly opened "Art Bookstore for All". The bookstore was transformed from a huge blast furnace, and the industrial style and literary style made it a new "punching place", and the visitor's camera captured a full sense of the times and a new concept of life.
"Prospering the press and publishing, radio, film and television, literature and art, philosophy, social sciences and archives." Deeply promote reading for all. At the just-concluded 2022 National Two Sessions, "reading for all" was once again written into the government work report. Since 2014, "reading for all" has been written into the government work report for nine consecutive times, and the concept of reading has gradually penetrated the hearts of the people and integrated into life.
Mainland China's book publishing volume ranks first in the world, and the overall scale of digital publishing and printing industry ranks second in the world. As of the end of December 2020, 2612 project results have been launched, and now, the mainland is moving from a publishing power to a publishing power.
Wandering the Sea of Books Works to Promote Reading for all
The novel "Human World" was published in November 2017 and before winning the Mao Dun Literature Award, it had distributed 40,000 copies; after winning the Mao Dun Literature Award, by the end of 2021, another 160,000 copies had been distributed. In the two months of the beginning of 2022, 220,000 sets were issued. Since the launch of the TV series, the actual sales of the two e-commerce platforms of Dangdang and Jingdong have been more than 50,000 sets. On March 2, Li Zhaoping, editor of China Youth Publishing Corporation, forwarded such a set of data, detailing the "best-selling road" of the novel "In the World". It is understood that after the popularity of the TV series "The World of Man", the original novel has been reprinted many times.
Cheng Wu, producer of the TV series "The World of People", vice president of Tencent Group and CEO of Reading Group, said that after reading the original novel, he was moved by the simple realism of the work, and immediately decided to devote his strength to the film and television adaptation of this work. In recent years, many novel adaptations such as "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" and "Qing Yu Nian" have achieved good results. In fact, the publishing industry has always played the role of the source of living water for the cultural industry, providing a steady stream of creativity and vitality for various fields.
Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the mainland book publishing industry has developed with high quality, and excellent books have been frequently produced. A number of major publishing projects have consolidated cultural self-confidence, and a number of key publications that reflect new achievements in various fields of philosophy and social sciences and serve academic research reflect Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, and Chinese style.
"A Brief History of the People's Republic of China", "A Brief History of reform and opening up", "A Brief History of the Development of Socialism"... In 2021, the Publishing Bureau of the Central Propaganda Department, together with relevant units and departments, jointly launched the activity of "Book Screening Centennial Greatness - Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China", and recommended dozens of thematic publications throughout the year, including authoritative readings, historical works, theoretical masterpieces, and popular and focused reading materials; there are both long novels, reportages, albums, comic strips, etc., to meet the reading needs of different reader groups.
In 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping sent a letter congratulating the publication of "The Great Cihai" and the 80th anniversary of the first edition of "Cihai", pointing out that he hoped that everyone would strengthen cultural self-confidence, adhere to reform and innovation, create high-quality products, and make new and greater contributions to cultivating and practicing the core values of socialism, enhancing the soft power of national culture, and building a socialist cultural power through the continuous implementation of high-quality major cultural projects. In August 2020, the centennial Cihai was updated to the seventh edition, becoming an "archive, chronicle and milestone of history and times", and was hailed as an iconic publication demonstrating the soft power of Chinese culture.
Today, the Commercial Press's "Chinese Translation of World Academic Masterpieces Series" has gone through 40 years. At present, this series of books has been published to the 19th series of 850 titles, and the 20th series is under planning. Gao Peiyong, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that the publication of the "Series of World Academic Masterpieces in Chinese Translation" is of great significance to the construction of philosophy and social science with Chinese characteristics and to the process of comprehensively building a modern socialist country.
In the past ten years, the mainland has become the world's largest children's book market, and children's books have entered a "golden age" of development. In 2016, Chinese children's literature writer Cao Wenxuan won the "International Hans Christian Andersen Award", winning the highest honor in the field of children's literature in the world. In 2018, China appeared at the Bologna International Children's Book Fair as the guest of honor, from the small booth to the current large exhibition hall, showing not only the strength of China's publishing industry, but also the creativity of Contemporary Chinese culture.
Xu Shengguo, director of the National Reading Research and Promotion Center of the China Press and Publication Research Institute, said that at present, 16 provinces and cities have issued local regulations on reading for the whole people, and many provinces and cities have carried out book festivals, book fairs and other activities.
Continuing the Context of The Words in Ancient Texts "Come Alive"
The national census of ancient Chinese books has completed more than 2.7 million pieces, the census of ancient Chinese books has been basically completed, and the distribution and preservation of ancient book resources in the country have been basically clarified... During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the field of ancient book protection has handed over a brilliant report card. At present, with the approval of the State Council, 13,026 precious ancient books and 203 units have been selected for the six batches of the National Rare Ancient Books Directory and the "National Key Protection Units for Ancient Books".
The collation and publication of ancient books shoulders the important mission of inheriting the past and the present and opening up the future. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that "we must strengthen archaeological work and historical research, so that the cultural relics collected in museums, the heritage displayed on the vast land, and the words written in ancient books can be brought to life, so as to enrich the historical and cultural nourishment of the whole society", which points out the direction for the protection and collation of ancient books.
"The value of the Book of Chen is irreplaceable!" In August 2021, zhonghua bookstore's revised edition of the "Twenty-Four Histories of point schooling" was renewed again. It is understood that the zhonghua bookstore's revised edition of the "Twenty-four Histories of the Point School" has successively launched a variety of "History", "New Five Dynasties History", "Old Five Dynasties History", "Liao History", "Chen Shu" and so on, and has become a model work representing contemporary academic standards.
It is understood that during the "2011-2020 National Ancient Books Collation and Publication Plan", a large number of important ancient book collation and publication results have been published: "Guben Opera Series" (6, 7, 8 and 10 episodes) was compiled by an expert team jointly organized by the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the National Library Publishing House, and the Guben Xiqu Series has become the largest collection of opera works so far; the "Literature Examination" that took 30 years to collate and collate records the system of dynastic canons from ancient times to the last year of the Southern Song Dynasty; The Annotations to the Complete Works of Li Taibai is the brainchild of Mr. Yu Xianhao, a researcher of Li Bai, and is known as "the highest achievement of Li Bai's research since the 1970s"...
In recent years, the reproduction and return of overseas Chinese rare books has become a trend in the collation and publication of ancient books - the "Selected Chinese Books of the Japanese Imperial Household Agency's Shuling Department" launched by shanghai ancient books published in 2013 included 66 kinds of Song and Yuan Chinese books in the Library of the Japanese Imperial Household Agency, a total of 170 volumes; in December 2020, the Zhonghua Book Company released information to introduce the progress of the "General Catalogue of Overseas Chinese Ancient Books", which has attracted much attention from domestic and foreign scholars, and the project published a total of 12 overseas ancient book catalogs, involving 18 library institutions.
With the continuous emergence of new archaeological achievements in recent years, the long-sealed oracle bones, gold inscriptions, stone carvings, and simple vessels have been re-seen to the world. The collation and publication of excavated documents are also frequently highlighted. For example, the "Changsha Mawangdui Han Tomb Jian Shu Collection", published in 2014, provides first-hand information for the study of the political system, social life and cultural thought of the Qin and Han dynasties. The late historian Li Xueqin, academic adviser to Integration, once said that the publication of the book is an important milestone in Mawangdui's research and a major event in China's academic and cultural circles.
Facing the future, "going out" and digitalization have made remarkable achievements
105 countries and regions participated in and displayed 300,000 kinds of books... The 28th Beijing International Book Fair held in September 2021 is the first large-scale international book fair to be held online and offline under the global epidemic, and in less than a month, 4835 copyright export intentions and agreements have been reached.
Since the Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a large number of excellent books embodying The Chinese style have successively gone overseas, and have shown the characteristics of many export countries and many foreign translation languages. On December 21, 2021, the premiere of the first volume of the Malay edition of Xi Jinping on Governing the Country was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As of December 2021, the first volume of Xi Jinping on Governing the Country has been translated and published in 36 languages. The first, second and third volumes of Xi Jinping on Governing the Country have become the "key" to understanding China overseas.
Not long ago, China Education Book Import and Export Co., Ltd. announced that the copyright renewal of the English version of the "Three-Body" trilogy was renewed, with a renewal amount of up to 1.25 million US dollars, which set a new record for the overseas copyright export of Chinese literary works. So far, the "Three-Body" trilogy has been exported in more than 30 languages, and the cumulative sales of foreign language editions have exceeded 3.3 million copies.
In recent years, the mainland has successively implemented projects such as the Chinese Book Promotion Plan and the Chinese and Foreign Book Translation Program, and built a "going out" support system for the whole process and all fields such as content production, translation and publication, and distribution promotion.
Only by facing the future can we win the opportunity. Under the epidemic, the digital publishing industry in the mainland has risen against the trend.
According to the "2020-2021 China Digital Publishing Industry Annual Report", in 2020, the annual industrial revenue of the mainland digital publishing industry exceeded one trillion yuan, reaching 1178.167 billion yuan, an increase of 19.23% over the previous year. Wei Yushan, president of the China Press and Publication Research Institute, analyzed that the new crown pneumonia epidemic has forced the publishing industry to increase the pace of transformation and integration, and digital education, audiobooks and other fields have shown a good momentum of development.
Nowadays, opening a mobile phone app to listen to an audiobook and paying for an online course have become a new trend of people's reading. According to the "18th National Reading Survey Report" released by the China Press and Publication Research Institute, in 2020, the listening habits of mainland citizens were further developed, and 31.6% of adult citizens formed the habit of listening to books.
In the future, China's book publishing industry is making great strides on the road of high-quality development.
In 2020, the listening habits of mainland citizens were further developed, and 31.6% of adult citizens formed the habit of listening to books, an increase of 1.3 percentage points over the previous year.
In 2020, the revenue of the mainland digital publishing industry exceeded one trillion yuan, reaching 1,178.167 billion yuan, an increase of 19.23% over the previous year.
In 2020, the revenue growth rate of electronic publication publishing ranked first among the eight industry categories of news and publishing.
(Reporter Chen Xue)
Source: Guangming Daily