Book Fair to Kick off on 20th
The 2010 Book Fair will open on August 20th at the Pazhou International Convention and Exhibition Center in Guangzhou and will last for 5 days. Over 200,000 different books will be on sale and over 200 cultural activities will be staged. To attract more attendants, the organizing committee and the Guangzhou Metro company will give out free one-way metro tickets. Other cities in the province including Foshan and Shenzhen will also be organizing book exhibitions over the same period.
SZ enters one-year countdown to 2011 Universiade
A grand celebration was held last night to mark the one – year countdown to the 2011 Universiade in Shenzhen. Attending the event, Guangdong Governor Huang Huahua remarked that hosting the 26th session of the Universiades is another important sporting event after the Beijing Olympics and the Guangzhou Asian Games. He hopes Shenzhen can speed up transforming its economic development mode and further enhance its soft power through hosting the competition.
"Finding Gold" exhibition shown in Guangzhou
A historical exhibition called "Finding Gold" is being held at the Guangdong Overseas Chinese Museum from August 12th to September 12th. The exhibition reveals the often unheard story of the gold rush in Australia in 1851 that led a great number of Chinese people to leave for those distant shores. Our journalist Zheng Yun has the details:
Australian Consul-General Mr. Grant Dooley and Mr. Wu Ruicheng, the Director-General of the Guangdong Overseas Chinese Affairs Office unveiled the exhibition yesterday. Mr. Grant Dooley explained the close ties between Guangdong and Australia:
"In the last 60 years, Chinese people have come from China and all parts of Asia to settle in Australia, with numbers swelling from 9,000 in the 1950s to 700,000 today. Chinese Australians have been key contributors to the fabric of Australian Society for over 150 years and they now appear at all levels of Australian society, professions, businesses and politics."
The exhibition will move to the Australian Pavilion during the 7th China International Small and Medium Enterprises Fair from the 15th to the 18th of September.