cover news reporter Zhang Jie
The sun is shining brightly and the air is clear. On January 11, the 36th Beijing Book Ordering Fair opened on its first day at the China International Exhibition Center (Chaoyang Hall) in Beijing. With the theme of "Strengthening Cultural Confidence and Creating New Glory in Publishing", the Beijing Book Ordering Fair will display more than 400,000 kinds of books, with an exhibition area of over 50,000 square meters and more than 720 exhibitors.
In the Sichuan Publishing Exhibition Area, a new book launch and signing ceremony titled "Strengthening the Foundation of Chinese Science Fiction—Chinese Science Fiction I Experienced" was successfully held. Published by Sichuan People's Publishing House and "Science Fiction World" magazine, "Looking at the Stars—Chinese Science Fiction I Experienced" and "Ode to the Galaxy—Chinese Science Fiction I Experienced" are here to meet you.
Party Secretary and Chairman of Sichuan Xinhua Publishing and Distribution Group, Zhou Qing, Party Secretary and Chairman of Xinhua Wenxuan Publishing and Media Co., Ltd., and Jidi Maga, former Vice Chairman and Secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Writers Association, jointly unveiled the new book. The authors of "Looking Up at the Starry Sky" and "Ode to the Galaxy" - the first president of Science Fiction World Magazine, Ms. Yang Xiao, and the first editor-in-chief Mr. Tan Kai, as well as science fiction writers Han Song, He Xi and other guests had a conversation. Huang Huang, vice president of "Publisher", science fiction writers Wu Yan, Xinghe, Lingchen and some science fiction associations of universities in Beijing also participated in the event. CCTV reporter Liu Guanqing served as the host of the event.
Four thousand years ago, the ancient Shu people began to look up at the stars, injecting "science fiction genes" into the Kingdom of Abundance. China's most influential science fiction magazine "Science Fiction World" and the most important domestic science fiction awards "Galaxy Award" and "Nebula Award" were also born here. The 2023 World Science Fiction Conference was successfully held in Chengdu, becoming a benchmark case for strengthening cultural confidence and "enhancing the country's cultural soft power and Chinese cultural influence." Sichuan has contributed significantly to the development of Chinese science fiction for more than half a century. Such achievements are inseparable from the hard work of several generations of sci-fi people. "Looking Up at the Stars" and "Ode to the Galaxy" are two important works that promote the spirit of Chinese science fiction and are important gains in the journey of promoting the prosperity of socialist culture.
Poet and Sichuan-born writer Jidi Maga expressed warm congratulations to the two authors on the publication of their new books, and made a profound analysis of the intrinsic relationship between science and technology and literature and art. In Jidi Maga’s view, science fiction literature and the development of science and technology complement each other, and the innovative thinking in science fiction works plays a very important role in promoting the development of science and technology.
Science fiction writers Liu Cixin and Wang Jinkang respectively recorded a video to express blessings for the launch of two new books. Liu Cixin said in the video that if it were not for Yang Xiao, Tan Kai and other science fiction seniors to lead Chinese science fiction out of the trough, there would be no science fiction in China. Liu Cixin is a science fiction writer.
Liu Cixin sent blessings through video
Jidi Maga
Yang Xiao
Research on the development of cultural industries to the world
It is expected to become an important teaching material for universities
In the guest session, two authors, Yang Xiao and Tan Kai, expressed their opinions from the perspective of magazine publishers. Readers shared touching stories of their interactions with Chinese and foreign science fiction writers over the past 40 years. The development of Chinese science fiction cannot be separated from the diligent writing and full support of science fiction writers. He Xi reviewed the three major developments of Chinese science fiction and looked forward to the future of Chinese science fiction. “I hope that in the third wave of science fiction, more innocent scientific and technological talents will emerge and devote themselves to arduous and even long-term tasks that may not necessarily pay off. "This will become a powerful driving force for China's development in the next few decades, and it is also an important historical mission of science fiction in China."
Professor Wu Yan of Southern University of Science and Technology, who was the first in China to offer science fiction courses, also made a wonderful speech: "I have read many research papers on "Science Fiction World" and "The Three-Body Problem", and no one can explain clearly how Chinese science fiction people put a To build a magazine on the verge of bankruptcy into a world-famous cultural brand, I found the answer after reading these two books. These two books are suitable for comparison. Teacher Yang Xiao’s "Looking Up at the Stars" records her every correct answer. How to make the right decision at the right time; "Ode to the Galaxy" shows that Teacher Tan Kai, with his style as a poet and writer, unites everyone around him and overcomes one difficulty after another. The two authors, one strong and the other soft, And each has his own persistence.There is reason to believe that in the next few years, these two books are expected to become important teaching materials for universities to study how the cultural industry develops towards the world. "
"Chinese Science Fiction I Have Experienced" book launch conference
"Chinese Science Fiction I Experienced" new book conference site
Tan Kai
Liu Cixin, Wang Jinkang, Han Song and others will participate
Many big names have joined the series to write
In the knowledge economy In the era, the level of science popularization in a country directly reflects the country's material and cultural development level. Science fiction literature is an important helper in the popularization of science, stimulating people's imagination and cultivating innovative thinking. The "Chinese Science Fiction I Experienced" series of books, through The diverse perspectives of Chinese science fiction publishers, writers and researchers record the 40 years of vigorous development of China's science fiction industry and tell the contemporary chapter of the Chinese story, in order to carry forward the emancipation of ideas in the new era, strengthen the confidence of Chinese culture, and provide a direction for China's excellent culture. The world provides new ideas.
Huang Lixin, president of Sichuan People's Publishing House, and Raz, deputy editor-in-chief of Science Fiction World Magazine, completed the signing ceremony for the "Chinese Science Fiction I Experienced" series on behalf of the two publishers. Next, Liu Cixin, Wang Jinkang, Han will be invited Song, He Xi, Wu Yan and other writers participated in the creation of the series of books, hoping to push the record of Chinese science fiction history in a more detailed and richer direction and help improve the imagination of the whole nation and the innovation of the whole society.
(Photography: Jiang Yipeng)
