While Taipei has gradually given up on the idea of becoming the center of global publishing through its book exhibition, other cities in the Chinese-speaking world have picked up the very idea. The PRC government and the organizers of the Beijing International Book Fair are delighted by the fact that its volume of trade has continued to rise every year. Yet all this may not matter any more anyway.
就在台北逐漸捨棄這個目標時，以辦書展奪下出版中心的概念，卻早已「傳染」給其他華文城市，北京國際圖書博覽會貿易額逐年攀升，官方與主辦單位欣喜不已，但攤開統計數字，華文出版界與西方國家的版權貿易，仍是嚴重入超。