Textbook｜Han Rong Bookstore closes on New Year’s Eve, the person in charge of the store: the epidemic has destroyed the supply and reluctantly put it down

Hanrong Bookstore, which opened in 1970, announced today (1st) that it will close its stores on December 31. It was once pointed out that there are no textbooks that cannot be bought in Hanrong, but the six people in charge of Hanrong said that this decision is really helpless. Heavy, knowing that it will no longer be able to provide satisfactory services to the academic community in the future, "now I have to let go of the pain" and choose to close the store.

The six people mentioned in the article that they have "landed in Yueqi". Their working experience has been as long as 40 to 60 years. The sales period has been greatly shortened.

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The average person in charge "landed in Yueqi" with varying degrees of damage to many parts of the body

The six managers of Hanwing Bookstore, Shi Hanji, Huang Qingqiao, Shi Guoji, Wu Xiumei, Shi Yongji, and Mai Meijuan announced today that Hanwing Bookstore will close its stores on December 31.

They all mentioned in the article that all 6 people have "landed in Yueqi" this year, and their working experience has been as long as 40 to 60 years. The long-term hard work has caused varying degrees of damage to the body. The supply chain of textbooks has been disrupted, and the sales period of middle school textbooks has been greatly reduced by half.

It has drawn a perfect end to the half-century business of the bookstore

Faced with this challenge, with the assistance of all colleagues and summer workers, they completed the sales service of providing textbooks to tens of thousands of students. They believed that they had drawn a perfect end to the half-century-old business of the bookstore.

They said that this decision is really helpless and heavy, but they know that they will no longer be able to provide satisfactory services to the academic community in the future, and bluntly said that "now they have to reluctantly let go" and choose to graduate.

Hanrong Subsidiary will insist on publishing high-quality and low-price textbooks

However, they said that in the future, they will continue to promote culture and art to strengthen cultural exchanges between the two sides of the strait, and strengthen the use of donations to support education. Hanrong's subsidiary "Tutor Publishing House Co., Ltd." will continue to publish high-quality and low-cost middle school textbooks.

Originally a second-hand book stall on the street, it was renamed "Han Rong" in 1970

The founder of Hanwing Bookstore, Shi Jingyi and his wife Liu Ziying, used to run the "Loyalty Bookstore" in Guangzhou in the 1950s. In the early 1960s, they pushed wooden carts and sold second-hand textbooks on Nelson Street in Mong Kok, Kowloon. "A shop under the stairs was named "Guorong Bookstore". In 1970, an adjacent shop with an area of ​​only over 100 square feet was rented to expand the business, and the bookstore was renamed "Hanrong Bookstore". Later, it began to sell new textbooks; in 1982, it was officially named "Hon Wing Book Co., Ltd."

His three sons and daughter-in-law also joined the bookstore one after another.

Established for more than half a century and undergoing social changes

Hon Wing Book Company was established in Hong Kong for more than half a century. It has experienced social changes, and its business has also undergone different developments.

For example, in 1975, Shi Jingyi went to the UK to sign an order with a local publisher. After the batch of British textbooks arrived in Hong Kong just before the summer vacation of that year, a strike by dock workers broke out in the UK, which affected other bookstores in Hong Kong. You therefore took the opportunity to raise the price, which was appreciated by the academic circles.

Another example was in 1983, when China and Britain started negotiations on the return of Hong Kong. During this period, the uncertain future of Hong Kong led to a sharp depreciation of nearly 50% of the Hong Kong dollar against foreign currencies such as the U.S. dollar and British pound. The sharp depreciation of the Hong Kong dollar put heavy pressure on the increase in book prices. Some book prices have risen astonishingly, but Shi Jingyi believes that "scholars should have books to read" and only adjusted the book prices upward by 10%.

With the reform and opening up of the Mainland, Shi Jingyi also returned to the Mainland for investigations many times, and found that the universities and libraries in the Mainland were eager to obtain various types of books, and decided to use all the money earned from book retailing to purchase the books needed in the Mainland. In the next few decades, Hanrong has sent more than 7.5 million books of different kinds to hundreds of units such as university libraries, public libraries, and scientific research institutions on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

The epidemic has affected citizens' habit of buying textbooks.

(Photo by Zheng Zifeng)

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