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TASS-Guangming Ribao Ten Literature Masterpieces project kicked off in Beijing

BEIJING, June 26. /TASS/. The project Ten Masterpieces of Chinese Literature in Russia and Ten Masterpieces of Russian Literature in China has been kicked off in Beijing on Sunday. The ceremony was attended by TASS Director General Sergei Mikhailov and Editor-in-Chief of China’s Guangming Ribao daily Du Feijin, top-ranking Chinese officials, public figures, men of letters and journalists. "I am sure this event will help Russians learn more about Chinese literature and the Chinese - about Russian literature. Works of the best writers and poets of our countries have always fostered patriotism, high moral qualities and the feeling of social responsibility," Du Feijin told TASS. Russian president’s adviser on culture Vladimir Tolstoy was appointed chairman of the project’s expert council which comprises directors of a number of academic institutions and universities, the Russian Book Chamber and representatives of the foreign ministry. The China panel board is led by Gao Mang, an acclaimed expert in Russian studies, translator and painter. The project is being implemented in the framework of the Russia-China Cross Years of the Mass Media (2016-2017). On Saturday, Russian and Chinese Presidents, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, took part in the opening ceremony of the second stage of the media tour the Russian-Chinese media tour, organized by TASS and China’s Renmin Ribao (People’s Daily). Participants will tour around Russia’s Far Eastern Primorsky Territory and Amur region. Read more

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