On April 21, China Daily, in collaboration with Beijing Foreign Studies University, successfully hosted the 2025 World Book Day event themed "The Power of Reading." Kirill Kravtsov, a Russian postgraduate student at the School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University, shared his reflections on reading in Chinese.

From Lao She to Eileen Chang, he described the unexpected joy he found in Chinese literature. "Reading in a foreign language not only sharpened my linguistic skills," he said, "but also allowed me to understand the meaning of fate and life from a Chinese perspective".