The 2024 South China Book Festival's Maoming sub-venue is taking place from Aug 16 to 20.

The main venue for the Maoming activities is hosted at the Xinyi City Library, with sub-venues spread across district and county-level libraries, rural reading rooms, Xinhua Bookstores, and major private bookstores.

A cloud platform of the book festival is established through websites and WeChat accounts. This platform facilitates a series of online activities including exhibitions, book purchases, live streaming, interactive sessions, and public welfare initiatives.

Additionally, the event has planned a diverse range of onsite activities, igniting a passion for reading among the public. Notable authors, cultural figures, and scholars such as Zhang Tengyue and Sun Rui will be invited to conduct lectures, discussions, book readings, and signings at the festival.

Activities also extends into rural areas, with people able to exchange old books for new books and donate old books during the festival. Well-preserved and valuable old books will be sent to rural areas' school libraries and reading rooms.

To encourage more people to engage in reading, the festival has introduced a series of discount activities for buying books.

People read at a library in Maoming. [Photo/WeChat account: maofabu]