Newsletter - The 17th China Shanghai International Children's Book Fair
2019-11-19 13:11:43
On November 15, the 17th China Shanghai International Children's Book Fair (CCBF) opened at the Shanghai world expo exhibition hall. CCBF is the only fair fully dedicated to books and specific contents for children aged from 0 to 16 in Asia Pacific. The exhibition area of this year is 25,000 square meters, 25% more than last year. More than 60,000 kinds of children's books have been presented in the fair, including 20,000 kinds of children's books in foreign editions, which accounting for 30% of the total. There were 345 reading promotion and professional exchange activities, covering more than 30 cultural spaces of publishing and reading outside the main venue, such as in schools, libraries and bookstores.
ICIA sent representatives to the CCBF and met with some of existing members who attended this book fair to communicate the progress and development of ICIA's new work. Moreover, ICIA also actively talked to publishers worldwide in order to recruit more members for ICIA family.
