New bookstore in Kyrgyzstan helps to promote cultural exchange with China
The first bookstore in Central Asia selling works of Chinese authors translated into Kyrgyz and Kazakh languages opened in Bishkekf Friday, as an initiative to promote cultural exchange between the three countries.
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A reader is reading the book "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" in the bookstore. [Photo/People.cn] |
The bookstore called Shans is selling books on Chinese history, economy, language and literature published by Oriental Literature and Art, a publishing company which began operating in Kyrgyzstan in November 2016.
It also has offices in Beijing and Moscow, Gulina Keneshova, departmental head of the company, told Xinhua at the opening of the bookstore.
She said the Beijing office selects the Chinese books for translation.
The company plans to open a similar bookstore in Almaty, Kazakhstan, next year.
Keneshova said the bookstore has been opened to facilitate cultural exchange.
"Soon we will (translate) famous Kyrgyz books into Chinese to (acquaint) the Chinese people (with) the culture of the Kyrgyz people," she added.