IRNA reported on Friday that the Director General of Public Relations and International Affairs of the IIDCY Hamed Rahnema, and Peace Publishing House of China Lin Yun signed the MoU at Special Guest Programs of the exhibition devoted to China.
According to the memorandum, the two institutes will now be more widely involved in the sale and distribution of books and other works of their own.
In signing ceremony, the Iranian official highlighted that the association has been a pioneer in copyright in Iran and has so far purchased more than 200 books from foreign publishers and sold more than 400 titles to them.
He then introduced various sections of the IIDCY and presented a report on the activities and programs of this cultural complex in Iran.
Rahnema said that the institute as a multi-purpose organization started publishing books for children and adolescents since 1965 and now has 1012 artistic cultural, artistic centers throughout Iran that provide cultural services to children and teenagers.
In this ceremony, head of China’s Peace Publishing House Lin Yun noted that the House is the subsidiary of the Jiangxi Publishing Group in China, which was founded in 1993 and has more than 130 subsidiaries and 10,000 employees.
The Publishing House was founded in 1985 and operates in the field of publishing books for children and adolescents for the age group up to the age of 18, and publishes 300 new titles and re-publishes 600 titles each year.
This memorandum was signed on May 4 at the 32th Tehran International Book Fair in order to introduce exponentially Iranian books to Chinese children and expand bilateral cooperation.
The 32th Tehran International Book Fair, with the motto ‘Where there is a will there is a way,’ will be held from May 24 to May 4 in the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque.