More than a thousand reading activities are held throughout the year. “The fragrance of books is passed on to Wenling” National Reading Month activity launched – Taizhou Channel

“See the world and yourself in reading.” On the morning of April 22, at the launching ceremony of the 2024 Wenling City National Reading Month activity, Zhang Youzhi, a student from Fangcheng Primary School, served as one of the 2024 Wenling City “Reading Promotion Ambassadors” 1. Go on stage to share your reading experience. This sentence is also the inner thought of Wu Peiruo, the “Book Lending Master” of Wenling City in 2023.

550 books. In one year, the number of books Wu Peiruo borrowed far exceeded her own estimate. “I read them over time, but I didn’t expect there to be so many.” Reading has become a daily necessity for Wu Peiruo and her daughter. “It’s like a day.” Three meals the same.”

Making reading a habit is also the goal that Wenling’s “National Reading” work has been committed to achieving. Since its launch in 2011, Wenling City has held National Reading Month activities every year to promote the concept of reading in the hearts of the people and help national reading take root in Wenling City. At present, Wenling has established a four-level service system of “city, town, village, and family”, launched “Children’s Reading Plan”, “Weilan Reading Club”, “Let’s Talk! Teenager” and other reading brands to create an online promotion platform for “Scholarly Wenling” , established the “Reading Public Welfare Fund”, built more than 400 family library branches, and more than 500 farm bookstores. In 2023, the number of books borrowed in the city will reach 1.27 million.

Compared with previous years, Wenling City’s National Reading Month activities in 2024 will be more exciting. On the occasion of the 29th “World Book Day”, the first “Bookly Wenling” reading matrix was established. The matrix is ​​composed of 9 municipal departments including the Organization Department of the Municipal Party Committee, the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee, the Working Committee of Organs Directly Under the Municipal Party Committee, and the Municipal Education Bureau, a number of state-owned enterprises such as Transportation and Tourism Group, Chengfa Group, and Xinhua Bookstore, and 16 towns (streets). , matrix member units will work together to build “Scholarly Wenling”. At the scene, representatives from some matrix member units took the stage to launch a reading initiative. Subsequently, the brand logo of the “Bookly Wenling” matrix and the list of Wenling City’s selected reading promotion activities in 2024 were released. Focusing on the theme of “Bringing the Scent of Books to Wenling”, this year, the city will link up online and offline to launch more than a thousand reading promotion activities, leading more citizens to enjoy the joy of reading and appreciate the beauty of books.

At the scene, a total of five Wenling City “Book Borrowers” ​​in 2023, including Wu Peiruo, came to the stage to receive the award. Last year, each of them borrowed more than 450 books. Six family library branches, including the He Rongfu Family Library Branch, the Guojiu Family Library Branch, and the Lin Hui Family Library Branch, won the honor of Wenling Outstanding Family Library Branch in 2023.

At the end of last year, Wenling City launched the “Children’s Reading Plan” to promote national reading in Wenling. This activity attracted a total of 144,225 people to participate, 557 people read for more than 88 days, of which 49 people completed the 105-day reading cycle. Ten young reading experts from the 2023 “Children’s Reading Project” 100-day challenge were invited to the stage to receive their awards. On the “Pocket Wenling” APP, a new all-media channel “Reading in Wenling” was also launched simultaneously.

The reporter also learned from the launch ceremony that the Municipal Cultural Center will officially open next month, and the grand theater, library, and cultural center will also gradually open to the public in the future, continuing to provide more high-quality “spiritual food” for the people of the city.

Wenling is currently at a critical moment in accelerating the wonderful transformation of the “Two Cities and Two Lakes”. It is even more necessary to use reading to gather ideological consensus, gather forging forces, promote cultural self-confidence and self-reliance, and empower social creativity and innovation. Next, Wenling City will further improve its infrastructure and service system, strengthen the supply of high-quality reading content, explore and innovate more reading carriers that are “public welfare and inclusive, and go deep into the grassroots” to promote the construction of a scholarly society in Wenling City.