China pushing to get more books in global market

Just as readers in China get to read a large number of foreign books, many Chinese books are available in overseas markets as well. And as part of its program to push Chinese books abroad, the China International Publishing Group recently organized a related seminar on publishing Chinese books.

According to Lu Cairong, deputy director of the CIPG, there were over 20,000 kinds of books about China published in English in 2017, and that number reached 40,000 in 2018.

Besides English, books about China were also published in French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese and German. The books on China cover subjects like modern history, culture, literature, traditional medicine and language.