Wang Dongmei, executive secretary of All-China Journalists Association. [Photo/China Daily]

Last year, Chinese and Russian netizens chose the top 10 most influential literary works in each other's country via online voting. And Quiet Flows the Don, by Russian writer Mikhail Sholokhov, took the crown. When I was in the university, I had to wait for one month to borrow this book from the library. Now, people can easily read the electronic version or listen to the audio version on gadgets. Internet-based media and new media have made the access to information, as well as our life, more convenient.