Mo Yan and Gurna exchanged their thoughts and insights on each other's works and literary creation under the theme of "Hometown and Foreign Country of Literature" Mo Yan said that for writers, hometown is a broad concept. As writers create, everything in the world can be included in the scope of his hometown.

Mo Yan believes that this is the specialty of the writer. "A writer will not be like a historian." Like a scholar, he describes a huge change in an all-round way.