On September 1st,2018, at the 36th International Board on Books for Young People (will be abbreviated as IBBY below) World Conference hosted in Athens, the capital of Greece, Zhang Mingzhou, executive vice president of China Society for the Studies of Children's Literature and former director of the Department of International Cooperations at China Children's Press & Publication Group, was elected as chairman of IBBY. Zhang is the first Chinese in the organization's top leader position.
More than 600 delegates from over 70 countries attended this year's conference. Under the topic of "Children's books & fairytales: where the East and the West meet", delegates developed a lively discussion on children's literature, children's publishing and related subjects about reading promotion.
At the conference, Zhang Mingzhou (2nd Left in the picture) and President of iRead Foundation Li Wen (1st Left) signed an agreement for the establishment of the iRead Outstanding Reading Promoter Award.