China receives Open Book of 58th Belgrade Book Fair asnext year's guest of honor country( Xinhua) 09:33, October 28, 2013 Chinese Ambassador to Serbia Zhang Wanxue received on Sunday the Open Book of the58th International Belgrade Book Fair, traditionally given to the representative of theguest of honor country at next year's fair, local media reported.
Receiving the Open Book from the hands of Andrzej Jasionowski, the ambassador of Poland- this year's guest of honor country, Zhang expressed the hope that China will help the59th book fair be at least as successful as this one.
"Cultural exchange and cooperation represent solid platform and excellent channel formutual understanding, while publishing and literature are the most reliable carrier of thisprocess," said Zhang, stressing that it will be the unique opportunity to better presentChinese history, culture and its development, to the people of Serbia.
President of Managing Board of Belgrade Book Fair Zeljko Ozegovic said that this year'sfair was better than the previous one, with 12 more publishers than last year, andexpressing joy that China will be next year's guest of honor, he asked Serbian publishers tomake more effort in translating and publishing Chinese authors' works.
Belgrade Book Fair is one of the largest events of this kind in Southeast Europe and thisyear, from Oct. 20 to 27, it has hosted 490 exhibitors from Serbia, Poland, France, Bosniaand Herzegovina, Macedonia, Iran, Montenegro, Japan, Belarus, China, Croatia, Britain, theNetherlands, Russia, Austria, Spain, Germany and India.
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