The Hong Kong Book Fair (Chinese: 香港書展) is a book fair organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, held annually (usually in the middle of July) at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, selling and exhibiting books, printed matter, stationery, printing, compact discs and other multimedia publishing.
The Fair has become an annual major event in Hong Kong with the number of visitors reaching new high every year.
The Fair has developed from a mere promotion platform for the industry to an annual territory-wide major reading and cultural event for the public of Hong Kong.
[3] 2004 International Cultural Village Book Fair trial, participating countries, France and Singapore.
[4] In 2005, Hong Kong Book Fair was the first time to co-operate with Asia Week and invited the two sides of famous writers, including Professor Long Yingtai, Zhang Yihe, Nanfang Shuo, Su Tong and Chen Kuan-chung in Hong Kong to meet with readers.
Additional night games for the first time, 6 hours after admission were half price, very good response.
Chief Executive Donald Tsang also attended the book fair bit to the twenty students in Primary Four to Six fairy stories.
Book Fair hd invited well-known writer Louis Cha (Jin Yong), Ni Kuang, Professor Lu Weiluan, Liu Xinwu, Yu Hua, Hong Ying, Su Weizhen, and lecturing in early Min.
2007 Book Fair was held in 2007 in the year to 24 July 18 at the first time, experts would provide advice, set the theme, "Reading in Hong Kong."
Cooperation with the British Council, set up a "British Day" to promote reading; and Greenpeace co-operation, first held on the 24th green at 』『 "love of books ‧ Aisen Lin Day", hopes to use the platform in Hong Kong Book Fair, publishing industry to promote the use of "forest friendly" paper, protect virgin forests are disappearing.
To promote the development of original culture, the first book fair set up a "creative space", showing cartoonist Jimmy, Lau Wan-kit, of Lee and Hsu Cheng Yi's manuscripts, as well as Hong Kong's famous design brand GOD GOD Douglas Young, founder of the creative design.
The 24th Hong Kong Book Fair started from 17 to 23 July this year under the theme of “Reading the World – Reading for a Better World.” The fair featured a number of zones, including its largest English Avenue to date, Teens’ World and e-Books and e-Learning Resources.
There, the Sino United Publishing was launching SuperBookcity.com, allowing readers to search and purchase millions of printed books and e-books.
The genre gained continual popularity in Hong Kong during the 50s-60s, when Chinese martial arts novels started to be serialized on newspapers.
Many of the stories have been translated into different languages, and even transformed into comics, TV series, movies or computer games, providing a wide range of channels for the world to understand the essence of Chinese culture.
This year's event attracted about 670 exhibitors from 37 countries and regions; and more than 320 cultural activities were held during the fair period, with the aim to encourage readers to travel around the world and broaden their horizons.
[10] Chinese and foreign authors of all times had put their words of love into classic literature, touching the hearts of many readers throughout the years.
In view of the COVID-19 pandemic situation in Hong Kong, HKTDC has decided to reschedule the book fair that was supposed to be held from 15 to 21 July 2020.