STORY: 1,150 Chinese books on display at Paris Book Festival 2024
SHOOTING TIME: April 12, 2024
DATELINE: April 13, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:26
LOCATION: Paris
CATEGORY: CULTURE

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the Paris Book Festival 2024
2. various of the Chinese Pavilion 
3. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): CARLA, French visitor
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LI TIANSHU, Deputy editor-in-chief, Beijing Children's and Teenagers' Publishing House, Beijing Publishing Group Co., Ltd.
5. various of the Paris Book Festival 2024

STORYLINE:

The three-day Paris Book Festival 2024 opened Friday with 1,150 Chinese books on display and sale and more than 40 percent of them in French version.

Up to 59 Chinese publishers from Beijing, Shanghai, Hebei, Zhejiang and other places are present in the festival, exhibiting and selling books on such subjects as literature, traditional Chinese culture, and children's books.

SOUNDBITE 1 (French): CARLA, French visitor
"This book is very good, I think it is exceptionally well presented, the writing is clear and the illustrations are beautiful."

SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LI TIANSHU, Deputy editor-in-chief, Beijing Children's and Teenagers' Publishing House, Beijing Publishing Group Co., Ltd.
"We hope to introduce the most representative places and culture of Beijing to our French friends through these books, and we also hope that they will come to Beijing during the China-France Year of Culture and Tourism."

During the festival, Chinese and French publishers will also team up to organize a number of activities. Eight well-known Chinese writers, including Qiao Ye and Shi Yifeng, are present to communicate with French writers.

The Paris Book Festival was founded in 1981 and hosted by the French Publishers Association. As one of Europe's large annual public cultural events, the festival attracted more than 100,000 visitors in 2023.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Paris.
(XHTV)