China News Service, Beijing, January 20th: Donghai County, Jiangsu Province is known as "the crystal of the East China Sea is the best in the world" and is an important jewelry industry base in my country.

Jian Zhijing, a writer born in the 1980s who grew up immersed in crystal culture, used his literary works to show the historic leap of Donghai County from "the hometown of Chinese crystal to the crystal capital of the world".

Book cover of the novel "Crystal City".

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  The novel "Crystal City" was recently released by Chinese Translation Publishing House.

The book takes the crystal culture of the East China Sea as the background and the story of people in Jingcun managing crystals as the main line. It tells the history of the struggles, literary dreams and love pursuits of young people in their youth in the 1980s and 1990s.

The second generation of Zhijingcun people, represented by Wang Xi and Li Xiaojian, use new perspectives and new concepts to conduct campus marketing, transnational operations, and create brands. With the rise of e-commerce, they have become masters of online sales.

  Liu Yongchun, the editor-in-chief of the Chinese Translation Publishing House, said in his speech that the Chinese Translation Publishing House focused on the reality that the national economic development has become more distinctive in regional characteristics and people's spiritual world has become more vigorous, and launched this novel describing the crystal business to encourage , inspire young readers to continue their high-spirited fighting spirit, unswervingly pursue their ideals, and achieve the value of life.

Book launch event.

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  Three writers and critics, Xing'an, Li Peiyu, and Zhao Yanbiao, analyzed and evaluated the novel creation themes, layout techniques, language style and other aspects, and encouraged Sword Crystal to take root in life and persist in characteristic creation; they unanimously agreed that "Crystal Crystal" "Du" embodies the artistic characteristics of combining absurdity and reality through the joys and sorrows of characters and crystals, as well as the strange and changeable fate.

With the distinctive characteristics of Chinese cultural inheritance, it shows a corner of the beauty and splendor of literary creation in the new era.

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