BEIJING, June 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Beijing
International Book Fair (BIBF), China's largest book fair, starts today
Wednesday 19 June.
BIBF will welcome 1,600 exhibitors and anticipates more than
200,000 visitors across the five-day fair. 1,050 will be overseas
exhibitors from 71 countries and regions around the world - up 150
(17%) on last year.
The BIBF exhibition area has expanded to 55,000 sqm and
showcases over 220,000 Chinese and foreign books.
15 countries and regions exhibit for the first-time including
Azerbaijan, Czechia, Nigeria, Norway, Slovakia and Qatar. Japan,
Malaysia, the United Kingdom and Italy have significantly expanded their
presence.
Ms Lei Jianhua, Director of the BIBF office, Executive
Assistant of CNPIEC said:
"It's with great joy that we open BIBF to the world and welcome
more international exhibitors to the fair than ever, particularly,
in our academic and professional publishing areas. Over the next
five days we will see publishing colleagues from all across the
world come together to refresh relationships and of course buy and
sell the rights to each others' books. We look forward to welcoming
everyone to Beijing.'
There is a big academic publisher presence including notable
international publishers such as Elsevier, Springer Nature,
Pearson, Wiley, Scholastic, Cengage, and Penguin Random House.
International conferences held at BIBF
Conferences include The 2024 PubTech Conference, 19 June,
BIBF World Children's Book Forum, 20 June, and the Beijing
International Publishing Forum on 21 June.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
is BIBF's Guest of Honor, Ceremony for the Special Book Award of
China, International Summit on
Publishing Education Summit, the BIBF Art Publishing Forum, the
BIBF Illustrators Exhibition, the BIBF International Illustration
Forum and the BIBF Art Book Fair.
Within the Fair there will be several notable exhibitions
including The 9th BIBF Picture Book Fair, which began in
2015.
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