Kids boost demand for sci-fi
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China鈥檚 push for technological innovation has been accompanied by a widespread fascination with science fiction in recent years, and now the children鈥檚 sci-fi industry is booming.
At the 2021 Children鈥檚 Science Fiction Conference in southwest China鈥檚 Chongqing City on Friday, prizes were handed out at the first annual Xingyun (Nebula) Awards for children鈥檚 science fiction, drawing attention to the sector鈥檚 growing economic significance.
The market value of China鈥檚 sci-fi peripheral products amounted to 1.35 billion yuan (US$210.83 million) in 2019, according to a report by the China Science Fiction Research Center of the China Research Institute for Science Popularization, together with the Research Center for Science and Human Imagination at the Southern University of Science and Technology.
The market value of sci-fi-themed peripheral products, mostly children鈥檚 sci-fi toys, including toy guns, shape-shifting robots and building blocks, was 850 million yuan in 2019, accounting for 63 percent of the total sci-fi peripheral product market, the report said.
鈥淐hildren鈥檚 sci-fi is becoming the focus for literary creation and incubation,鈥 said Dong Renwei, a sci-fi writer and founder of the Nebula Awards.
鈥淎s time advances, the scientific fantasies that people read about in their childhood will become more and more real,鈥 said Liu Cixin, a renowned sci-fi writer in China and chairman of the awards鈥 organizing committee. 鈥淐ompared with fairy tales and other fantasy literature, sci-fi has a more profound influence on the future of young readers.鈥
Liu said that children鈥檚 sci-fi is a literary genre full of vitality, and its position in both sci-fi and children鈥檚 literature is irreplaceable.
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