Shanghai Book Fair THE 2023 Shanghai Book Fair will be held at the Shanghai Exhibition Center from Aug. 16 to 22 with 850 reading events — 467 at the main venue and 142 as parallel events. Recently, Zhuozhou City in Hebei Province and other regions of China suffered heavy rains and warehouses of many publishing and distribution companies were flooded, causing huge losses. To support the flood-stricken publishers and help the domestic publishing industry, the fair will hold some sales activities. Airport passengers THE daily passenger throughput of Beijing Daxing International Airport has surpassed 150,000 for the first time, the airport said Wednesday. The new record-high daily passenger number was registered Aug. 6, with more than 155,000 trips handled by the airport that day. The airport has resumed or newly launched more than 10 international and regional air routes since July, with its air services thriving this summer. Top visitor source A TOTAL of 231,330 Chinese mainland tourists visited Singapore in July, according to the latest statistic released by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB). The figure doubled from 113,290 in June, setting a new record for Chinese mainland visitors entering Singapore this year. The Chinese mainland ranked first among tourist-contributing markets to Singapore in July, followed by Indonesia, Australia, India, and Malaysia. Singapore received 1.42 million visitors last month. | 