April is the most beautiful day in the world, and the fragrance of books can bring you far. On April 21, the 2024 National Reading Theme Promotion in Jiangsu Province and the launching event of Wuxi’s 17th Taihu Reading Month were held at the Wuxi International Conference Center.
The 2024 Jiangsu Provincial National Reading Theme Promotion Campaign has the theme of “Love Reading, Read Good Books, and Read Good Books”. It will hold 139 key activities such as theme reading, key group reading, and classified reading promotion, striving to provide readers with broad coverage, Precise and high-quality reading services will further expand the depth and breadth of the construction of “Bookish Jiangsu”.
The comprehensive reading rate of residents is 90.34%, and Jiangsu is full of books.
A new era of reading, a new journey to pursue dreams. Since last year, actions to promote reading among all people and build a scholarly society have become common practice in Jiangsu, and the construction of “Bookish Jiangsu” has achieved new progress and new results. Innovatively held the launch event of the 19th Jiangsu Reading Festival, held the “9·28” classic reading event across provinces for the first time, organized the provincial “National Reading·Spring Breeze Action” home event, organized the 13th Jiangsu Book Fair Suzhou main exhibition venue, The number of online and offline participants reached a record high. Announced the second batch of 100 “Jiangsu Province Scholarly Campus Construction Demonstration Sites” and selected 18 “Youth Scholarly Numbers” in Jiangsu Province in 2023. “Yangzhou Urban Study Room Construction” was commended by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China as an outstanding national reading project in 2022-2023.
At the same time, Jiangsu actively promotes reading among party members and cadres, promotes and guarantees reading among key groups such as children, teenagers, the elderly and disabled people, and creates a strong atmosphere of loving, reading and being good at reading. 5,776 social reading organizations, more than 10,000 national reading promoters, and more than 300 national reading volunteer service stations promote the extension of reading services to the grassroots.
The results of a survey on the reading status of residents in Jiangsu Province recently released show that the comprehensive reading rate of residents in the province in 2023 is 90.34%, an increase of 0.01 percentage points from 2022. Reading has become a daily habit of more residents. The average reading time per person per day is 71.93 minutes, and 62.62% of the residents surveyed read for more than one hour a day. “In-depth reading” has become the mainstream. It is worth noting that a survey of 15,169 families with children under the age of 8 showed that 88.97% of the respondents or their family members had the habit of reading with their children, indicating that Jiangsu’s “little hand holding big hand” parent-child reading And the construction of “bookish family” has achieved results.
From the sound of books reverberating in rural campuses to the scent of books in urban street reading spaces; from the quiet time alone between the pages of a book to the joy of traveling together in the sea of books… the scent of books fills Jiangsu. The relevant person in charge of the National Reading Division of the Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department said that overall, the construction of “Bookish Jiangsu” has shown a good situation of innovative advancement and vigorous development. Jiangsu’s national reading work in 2024 will focus on deepening thematic reading promotion activities and improving public reading. Systematic advancement has been made in terms of service efficiency and innovative reading promotion content and forms.
“12 good books” are recommended every year, and the way of reading quietly changes
In recent years, various reading promotion activities with distinctive characteristics have blossomed across Jiangsu, enriching and satisfying the people’s high-quality and differentiated reading needs. In order to strengthen the leadership of typical demonstrations, Jiangsu took the lead in carrying out certification and support work for provincial-level public welfare reading promotion activities across the country. At the event site, the 2023 provincial-level charity reading promotion activity certification list was announced. 17 projects including the Nanjing City of Literature Literature Course (Nanjing City of Literature Promotion Association) and the activity of reading a book for millions of workers in the Yangtze River Delta (5+10) cities (Wuxi Federation of Trade Unions) have obtained provincial first-class certification; 23 projects such as Reading the Future and Sending Hope (Wuzhong Open University) have obtained provincial second-class certification; 32 projects have obtained provincial third-class certification.
Reading good books together nourishes the heart with the fragrance of books. Starting in 2013, the provincial leading group for national reading activities recommends 12 good books to readers across the province every year. The “12 good books” recommended this year are: “The Wind Rises in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia”, “Changes and Responses: Global Economic and Financial Trends and China’s Future”, “Chinese-Style Agricultural and Rural Modernization”, “New Productivity”, “Water Moisturizing the Great Yangtze River in China” “General Course on Dunhuang Art” “Listen to the Chief Expert’s Talk about the Project to Explore the Origin of Chinese Civilization” “Pao Pu” “ChatGPT Era: The Coming New Wave of Artificial Intelligence” “Promote Health and Enjoy Old Age” “Youth Science That Will Be Addicted at First Reading Lesson” “Lighting Sound”. These 12 good books cover social sciences, political economy, history and culture, popular science education and other categories. Readers of different ages and hobbies can find their favorite books in this book list.
Today, the reading methods of Jiangsu people are gradually changing. Compared with digital reading, the amount of traditional paper reading has decreased. In 2023, the reading rate of paper books was 65.06%, a decrease of 3.63 percentage points from 2022, and “online reading” accounted for 71.55% of the main ways for residents to read. In this regard, Lu Yuan, director of the Jiangsu Provincial National Reading Promotion Association and co-founder of Qunxue Academy, believes that in a modern society with diversified reading forms, finding the most suitable reading method for oneself is as long as the original intention of acquiring knowledge, broadening horizons, and improving wisdom is not changed. , any form of reading can be eclectic for my use.
There are many exciting activities across the province, allowing reading to reach a wider audience
Live up to the spring scenery and “walk with the book”. At present, a series of colorful national reading activities such as the Second Jiangsu University Phoenix Reading Festival, “Reading without Borders and Reading in Jinling – 2024 National Reading Charity Tour”, “Yanshang Shuxiang·Wang Dong Reading Month” are taking place across the province Wonderful performances everywhere. With the official release of 139 key national reading activities in Jiangsu Province in 2024 at the event launch site, a strong atmosphere of loving reading, reading good books, and being good at reading will be further created and the enthusiasm for reading among the people will be stimulated.
Public reading service survey data show that 93.59% of residents in the province were “satisfied” with reading activities in 2023, an increase of 1.85 percentage points from the previous year. This result makes Zhou Lejin, the head of the Yixing Huiren Book Club, who has been promoting charity reading for 11 years, very excited. He believes that an important way to deepen national reading is to let good books and good writers enter thousands of households, and moisten the Things can silently affect more people. Since the beginning of this year, he has held five consecutive reading events for “Takeaway Poet” Wang Jibing, and the venues were full and created a sensation. “Huiren Book Club will always use good books to ‘Huiren’. We hope that through our activities, more people will feel the power of literature and the power of reading.” Zhou Lejin said.
On the same day, the 17th Taihu Reading Month in Wuxi City was launched simultaneously, and more than 2,500 reading activities will be held one after another. It is understood that over the years, Wuxi has attached great importance to reading for all, and has focused on the “Taihu Reading Month” activity. It has a theme every year and innovations every year. As of 2023, it has covered more than 70 million people online and offline. In this process, the city’s reading position has been continuously expanded. Up to now, Wuxi has built more than a hundred “clock study rooms” high-quality public reading spaces. At the same time, the cultural brand of “Zhongshu·Reading” continues to be built, and the bookish atmosphere in the “City of Zhongshu” becomes more and more intense.
Xinhua Daily·Intersection reporter Wei Lin Yu Feng
Pictures Zhu Jipeng Wei Lin
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