At the 36 th IBBY Congress in Athens in 2018 IBBY signed an agreement with the Shenzhen iRead Foundation to establish the IBBY-iRead Outstanding Reading Promoter Award. The Award has been established to encourage a real commitment to the cause of reading promotion in the hope of spreading this dedication to others around the globe.
      The Award aims to encourage further investment by individuals, organizations and governments in the promotion of children’s reading and will stimulate educational innovation, give much greater access to children’s books and an enhanced profile for children’s reading promotion – key tools in global, social, economic and cultural development.
      Every two years IBBY will invite nominations from IBBY National Sections that recognize outstanding individuals who are working to promote the expansion and development of children’s reading. From these nominations the IBBY Reading Promotion Award Jury will select two winners. The first Awards will be presented in 2020 at the 37th IBBY Congress in Moscow, Russia.

      Candidates for 2020 in China Region: Wang Zhigeng, Zhu Yongxin