(News from Qingdao Daily) Accompanying the opening of the 19th National Book Expo Qingdao Site, the No. 2 Hall of Qingdao International Convention Center became a huge bookstore. In recent two days, more than 80,000 citizens visited the site.

    The expo is very crowded, showing the citizens great passion to books. People are excited and go around to find their favorite books.

    During the book expo, the roads near the Convention Center are congested with various of vehicles. People from all over the cities came here, the 8800m2 exhibition hall at the 2nd floor is full of citizens, the old, children, soldiers and farmers ...

    80,000plus books from 420 publishers participated in this book expo, these books are classified into different sectors to facilitate people to find their favorite books. At the book expo, the citizens can buy the latest high quality book with special discount, some are even lower than that of cyber bookstores. In the peak time, lots of citizens wait in queue at the cashier, where more than 30 POS machines work continuously. Some citizens bought a lot of books, the receipt of book is over 1 meter long. As the sale quality is large, work staff has to go to warehouse to allocate books for many times.

    During the book expo, the host also invited many renowned super stars and celebrities to hold autographed copy sale, the famous cartoonist Cai Zhizhong signed more than 1000 new books within 2 hours.

    By yesterday, the sale volume of the book expo is over 1.6million RMB. The book expo will close today, but the book sale at Qingdao Convention Center will continue until May 3.