Neruda is eternal favorite in China

A new Chinese edition of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's memoir, I Confess I Have Lived, was published one month before Premier Li Keqiang's visit to the South American country in May.

"Perhaps I didn't live just in myself, perhaps I lived the lives of others ... My life is a life put together from all those lives: the lives of the poet," wrote Neruda reflecting on the many "lives" he lived around the world, including his three visits to China.

Born in 1904 in Parral, Chile, the late Nobel laureate was a great admirer of China. He had a long-standing friendship with Chinese poets and had a great influence on modern Chinese poetry.