The TAC Annual Conference 2025 opened in Dalian, Liaoning province, on April 24.
On April 21, ahead of the 30th World Book Day, BFSU and China Daily, the country's national English-language newspaper, co-hosted an interactive event themed "The Power of Reading."
On April 18, over 700 guests gathered at BFSU to celebrate the 2025 International Chinese Language Day.
Back in 2003, Agshin Aliyev was an undergraduate student from Azerbaijan, studying at Shanghai University.
A common saying in Chinese goes, "reading changes fate." For writer A Yi, this is not merely a catchphrase, but his true life experience.
In this age of rapid development of artificial intelligence, reading is more important than ever before, says writer Meng Xiaoshu in her speech.
For Russian student Kirill Kravtsov, known by his Chinese name Lin Zirui, now pursuing a master's at Peking University's School of Journalism and Communication, reading is a vital means of connecting cultures and encouraging mutual understanding.
As a child in Serbia, Soldat Tatjana, now director of the Serbian Cultural Center in Beijing, watched her father read each evening, his fingers tracing lines of text like a sacred ritual.
For Wang Jiawu, former chief engineer at China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, reading is the key to China's aerospace success.