On April 23, 2022, the World Book and Copyright Day, the second volume of the book series Chic Beijing – Popular Photogenic Spots in Beijing was launched at Shougang Park, which rose to fame as a site of contest during the Winter Olympic Games.
The book series is jointly compiled by Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Beijing Radio & Television Station and Beijing Publishing Group (BPG).
The participants of the event included the following members:
Deng Kai, secretary of the secretariat of China Writers Association;
Yu Junsheng, deputy secretary-general of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), deputy director of the Publicity Department of Beijing Municipal Committee of the CPC, secretary of the leading Party members’ group and director of Beijing Radio & Television Station;
Huo Xuewen, secretary of the Party committee and president of the Board of Directors of Bank of Beijing;
Wu Wenxue, deputy secretary of the Party committee, member on the Board of Directors and general manager of Beijing Publishing Group Co., Ltd.;
Liu Bin, member of the leading Party members’ group and deputy director of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture & Tourism;
Li Qingxia, member of the Party committee and editor-in-chief of Beijing Publishing Group; and
Guo Qing, director of the Publicity Department of the Party committee of Shougang Group.
In an interview with Beijing Radio & Television Station, Wu Wenxue said that Beijing Publishing Group attached high importance to the publishing of the second volume of Chic Beijing – Popular Photogenic Spots in Beijing in 2022 by listing it as a key project of BPG and devoting serious efforts to its compilation, designing and publishing. The second volume of the book can further satisfy the needs of readers by providing more information about popular photogenic spots in Beijing.
Wu Wenxue received an interview by Beijing Radio & Television Station
At the Launching ceremony of the book, Li Qingxia said the first volume of Chic Beijing instantly became popular as a tourist guidebook, and garnered acclaim for its elaborate design on “urban walking” experiences.
“As the publisher of the book, Beijing Publishing Group feels happy to join hands again with Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture & Tourism and Beijing Radio & Television Station to launch the second volume of Chic Beijing. The publishing of the book is aimed to do a good job in telling the stories about new Beijing under the brand name of Chic Beijing, so as to enable readers to feel the pulse of the chic culture in Beijing, and to contribute to building Beijing into an international consumption center city.”
Li Qingxia delivered a speech at the launching ceremony of the second volume of Chic Beijing.
Book Series Chic Beijing – Popular Photogenic Spots in Beijing
Second Volume
The photogenic spots in the second volume of Chic Beijing are introduced following the time sequence instead of spatial sequence. The 24 hours in a day are divided into 12 double-hour periods. There are photogenic spots fit for each double-hour period, from dawn and noon to dusk and midnight. Their distinctive characteristics are also detailed in elegant essays. The chic side of Beijing is naturally fused with the city’s time-honored traditions.
Feng Yuanzheng, vice president of Beijing People’s Art Theatre, Xu Zechen, a winner of Mao Dun Literature Prize, and many young readers, “read” Beijing by “walking in it” from the first-person perspective. The 35 essays in the book interpret what they have seen, and draw close the relationship between Beijing and readers.
Mo Yan, vice president of China Writers Association and Nobel Prize winner for Literature, sings high praise of Chic Beijing as follows: In this book recording the happenings during the 12 two-hour periods of Beijing, there is a livelier and entirely new “chic Beijing” that has never been discovered!
The layout of the second volume remains the same as that of the first volume, which combines text, pictures and videos. Readers can not only read essays that arouse their interest in Beijing, but also watch the videos of the photogenic spots by scanning QR codes, and learn about practical tips about visiting the popular places of interest.
A number of online and offline activities are also held for promoting the second volume of Chic Beijing, such as “Children’s picture • chic Beijing”, “Visiting popular places of interest in chic Beijing”, “Voice your opinion • chic Beijing” and “Voice of live streamers • chic Beijing” on “Beijing Time” App. In addition, the program “Visiting popular bookstores in chic Beijing” was also live streamed on the World Book and Copyright Day.
