The first Cross-Straits Book Fair will be held from July 28-31 at the Xiamen International Conference & Exhibition Centre in Xiamen, Fujian Province.

Attending the book fair are at least 500 publishers, 200 of them from Taiwan.

The book fair is jointly organized by the Xiamen municipal government, the Fujian Provincial Administration of Publishing Affairs, the Chinese Publishers Association and Taiwan Publishers Guild, the Taiwan Book Distributors Guild and several other publishing business promotion organizations.

With the opening of the book fair, the largest of its kind between publishing communities across the Taiwan Straits, Taiwan academic books and books about daily life will be directly accessible to mainland readers, said Chen Weijiang, deputy director with the Chinese Publishers Guild.

(China Daily May 13, 2005)