Time: 19:00 -- 21:00 PM, October 25, 2019 (Friday) 

Venue: Hall of Beijing Normal University

Speaker: Gong Jianghui

Brief Introduction of the speaker: 

Gong Jianghui, Associate Professor of BNUBS, PhD, Institute of Industrial Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.  Member of Chinese Writers Association, famous online writer.

Since 2011, he has written a full-length industrial online novel "Industrial Overlord" on Qidian Chinese website under the pen name of "Qi Cheng", which is regarded as the first work of online hard industrial literature.  Material Empire, a novel about material science and technology, was recommended by The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the People's Republic of China as excellent Original Works of Network Literature in 2016. The paper book was published by 21st Century Press. Big Country Heavy Industry, a novel about the development of China's equipment manufacturing industry, has been selected as one of the key works supported by Chinese Writers Association (CWA) in 2017, Chinese Online Novel Rankings 2017 by China Writers Association, "2019 Excellent Online Literature Original Works Recommendation" by National Press and Publication Administration. The book was published by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House.  TV series adapted from Industrial Overlord and Big Country Heavy Industry will hit screens in 2020-2021 respectively.

In this lecture, Gong Jianghui will review the 70 years of industrial construction of New China from the perspective of an industrial novel writer, and tell how Manufacturing in China was forged.

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Xiao XiangRong 

(General director of 2019 National Day Mass Parade, Deputy dean of School of Arts and Media, Beijing Normal University) -- theme to be determined