On June 19, the Macao publishing delegation to Beijing, led by Advisor Yin Rutao, Deputy Director of the Department of Publicity and Culture of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macao Special Administrative Region; Head Lok Po, President of the Macao Publishers Association; and Deputy Head Lam Fat Iam, President of the Association of Publication of Cultural Education of Macao, visited China Publishing Group (CPG) for an exchange. CPG Chairman Wen Hongwu met with the delegation, and CPG Vice President Zhang Hong held talks with the delegation on topics including cooperation in the publishing sector and the international dissemination of Chinese culture.

Zhang Hong briefed the delegation on the Group’s development during the symposium. He noted that the Group remains committed to publishing premium titles, leveraging its core strengths in the humanities and social sciences, strengthening its general-interest publishing, refining its professional publishing, and creating quality cultural publications. Given Macao’s unique geographical advantages, he expressed the hope to further strengthen cooperation with the Macao publishing community and jointly enhance the international dissemination of Chinese culture.

Lok Po noted that the Macao publishing community has participated in the Beijing International Book Fair for multiple consecutive sessions, gaining firsthand insights into the development of the book publishing industry. This year’s Macao pavilion opened smoothly to great public interest, and the provincial pavilions were all vibrant with a lively atmosphere, making the Fair a resounding success. Through this national-level premier platform, the Macao publishing community is further elevating its cultural publishing brand, and the delegation found the visit truly inspiring.

Lam Fat Iam noted that the cultural industry has become a core driver for Macao’s appropriately diversified economic development. He expressed the hope that the China Publishing Group, as a central state-owned enterprise, would leverage its strengths to jointly promote the development of Macao’s publications in the mainland market, and support the Macao publishing industry in participating more extensively in major book fairs on the Chinese mainland, thereby fostering cultural exchanges between Macao and the Chinese mainland.

The delegation also visited the exhibitions “Chinese Publishing in the Perspective of Human Civilization,” the “Compiling History and Establishing Classics: Special Exhibition of Twenty-Four Histories Editions,” and the Zhaohua Xishi Cultural and Creative Café of People’s Literature Publishing House. Giorgio Sinedino (Shen Youyou), Assistant Professor in the Department of Portuguese of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Macau and laureate of the 18th Special Book Award of China; He Yao, Vice President of the Macau University of Science and Technology; and over 20 members of the delegation from Macao’s academic, educational, cultural, and press and publishing sectors, as well as officials from the Group’s Editorial Board Office, Publishing Department, Marketing Department, and International Department, participated in the exchange.