Original title: Hong Kong’s first “National Reading Day” was launched, and Shenzhen and Hong Kong’s “Two Cities of Reading Together” became a highlight
On April 20, the “Hong Kong Reading Week” and “2024 Hong Kong Reading+” activities opened. This is the occasion of the April 23 World Book Day and the first “Hong Kong National Reading Day”. The Hong Kong SAR aims to promote A cultural event for everyone to read. Shenzhen and Hong Kong’s “Twin Cities of Reading Together” has become a highlight. Chan Kwok-kee, Chief Secretary for Administration of the Hong Kong SAR Government, delivered a video speech at the opening ceremony. Liu Zhen, acting director of the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau of the Hong Kong SAR Government, and Zhang Ling, member of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee and Minister of Publicity Department, attended the opening ceremony.
Chan Kwok-kee, Chief Secretary for Administration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, said in a video speech that Shenzhen carefully selects books published in the Mainland to be displayed in the Shenzhen area of the focus exhibition, which is really thoughtful. The Hong Kong SAR government will continue to go all out to gather the power of the government, business and people to organize more cultural activities of different types and tell the cultural story of Hong Kong.
Liu Zhen delivered a speech at the scene and expressed his gratitude to Shenzhen for organizing a delegation to attend the opening ceremony. Since last year, the two places have continued to promote “Shenzhen and Hong Kong read together”. This intercity reading two-way exchange event reflects Shenzhen and Hong Kong’s adhering to “working together, answering the same questions, The principle of “same frequency resonance” demonstrates the high degree of interaction between the cultural units of the two places and highlights the positive demonstration role of jointly promoting the construction of the Humanities Bay Area and the Chinese and foreign cultural and artistic exchange center.
It is understood that the first “Hong Kong Reading+” will be held from April 10 to May 12, including 34 exciting activities such as author lectures, cultural activities, large-scale exhibitions, and multiple public and campus reading promotions. Among them, the Shenzhen element is eye-catching, showing that Shenzhen and Hong Kong are constantly deepening the “Twin Cities Study Together”. At the opening ceremony, the host had a conversation with Shenzhen writer Yang Liguang, explaining that the origin of his new work “The Galloping Shenzhen River” is to tell the story of the interconnected mountains, rivers and cultural contexts between Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Starting from the history of Shenzhen and Hong Kong 30,000 years ago, writing about a river , Two Cities, the story of the encounter between China and the world. After the opening ceremony, a launching ceremony for the traditional Chinese version of the book was held. The focus exhibition includes “Reading Together in Two Cities: Shenzhen Zone”, which displays parent-child, popular science, and city promotion books produced in Shenzhen, as well as the “Top Ten Children’s Books of the Year” for the 24th Shenzhen Reading Month.
As a global model city for universal reading, Shenzhen’s approach to promoting universal reading has attracted the attention of Hong Kong. In 2023, the cultural department of the Hong Kong SAR government and people from the publishing industry organized a group to participate in the Shenzhen Reading Month activities for the first time. Shenzhen and Hong Kong issued a consensus on “Reading Together in the Two Cities” and decided to launch a series of activities between Shenzhen and Hong Kong to promote “Reading Together in the Two Cities”. The city reads Chinese cultural classics together and spreads Chinese cultural heritage.
Around World Book Day this year, Shenzhen plans to launch a series of activities that also include many Hong Kong elements. For example, Shenzhen Publishing Group and Datong Publishing House jointly launched the Shenzhen-Hong Kong youth study program, inviting Hong Kong teenagers to take the “Aiyuhao” mobile book bar and travel to Shenzhen to carry out study activities. Cultural celebrities from both places recommend excellent books in various fields to readers, which will form a recommended book list for Shenzhen and Hong Kong’s “Two Cities of Reading Together” to guide readers in both places to read more and read good books. On April 23, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, Guizhou and Qiong will jointly launch the “Half-hour Reading Together” activity, setting up main reading venues in seven cities including Hong Kong, Macau, and Shenzhen, inviting citizens to share the joy of reading.
Shenzhen and Hong Kong are connected by mountains and rivers and cultural contexts, and the two places have close cultural exchanges. Shenzhen and Hong Kong will continue to rely on the Shenzhen-Hong Kong “Reading Together” platform to jointly build a scholarly bay area and a cultural bay area, and work together to promote cultural prosperity, build a cultural power, and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation.
Shenzhen Special Economic Zone reporter Guan Weiying/Text and Hong Kong Commercial Daily reporter Feng Hanwen/Photo
(Editors: Chen Yuzhu, Li Yu)
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