Bringing a compelling collection of professional expertise, the CCBF event programme offers highly engaging initiatives aiming to provide a comprehensive understanding of Chinese publishing. Topics include international trends, copyright trade and original picture books in Chinese.
Furthermore, the Fair features a range of other events and networking opportunities for the CCBF community, such as the Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition, Illustrator Avenue, and Children Plus.
Conferences and Seminars
CCBF professional seminars covers a wide array of topics and formats such as panels on business practices, reading promotion, and creative workshops with children’s book masters.
Speakers include experts on publishing, digital marketing, social media, and content creation. These events aspire to promote communication and cooperation between professionals and share the latest children’s literature industry trends with all attendees.
Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition
The Golden Pinwheel International Young Illustrators Competition is a comprehensive programme which includes exhibitions, an illustrated yearbook and a variety of promotional campaigns. In addition to the existing Book Publishing category, the 2023 Golden Pinwheel launched a new category - Commercial. It aims to provide a high-quality platform for young illustrators around the world to show their talent and business value, and to build bridges between illustrators, children's publishers and branding companies, both locally and globally. It fosters an inspiring and nurturing environment where young illustrators and artists from around the world find a platform to realise their visions.
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Illustrators Avenue
A small art fair within a book fair, the “Illustrators Avenue” is an innovative platform created especially for illustrators, artists and content creators seeking for business opportunities, professional training and industry networking.
It is also a place where novices and seasoned professionals of the visual communication world can share experiences, successes and concerns regarding the profession and the market.
Children Plus
CCBF launched “Children Plus” since2019, a new stream of events aiming to cast light on a trend, a topical subject, a book category or a theme of special relevance for the global publishing industry. Through exhibitions, lectures, round tables and books presentations, we will discover and rediscover the most fascinating titles published in that category, and hear the best publishers and authors who created them.
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