Reading Covenant in the Southern Observation | Academy: A "Three-Dimensional Portrait" of Humanistic Longgang
Mountains and rivers, forest springs, courtyards, famous artists gathered, citizens full of halls; walking promenades, traveling books... The crowd gathered at an Oriental Garden Academy because of their reading.
On the occasion of the 27th "World Book Day", on April 22, Longgang District of Shenzhen released the annual activity menu of "City of Reading" at the 24 history colleges of Gankeng Ancient Town, and launched reading activities throughout the year. At the opening of the Crane Lake Forum, Wang Jingsheng, general adviser of The Crane Lake Think Tank, and Yin Changlong and Han Zhanning, think tank experts, visited Longgang to share their reading insights with the public. >>> review >>>
The Seventh Party Congress of Longgang District clearly proposed the implementation of the strategy of a culturally strong district, creating a charming urban area with strong books, piano sound and strong creativity. At the same time, it will build a "city of reading" as one of the cultural brands of "five cities and one corridor" in the urban area.
The promotion of reading for the whole people in an urban area is not only a response to the cultural needs of citizens, but also a choice for the direction of urban transformation and development. This is a cultural turn taken by the industrial strong zone, which reflects longgang's extremely valuable cultural consciousness and cultural self-confidence. Reading for all will paint and show longgang's humanistic outlook and urban spirit from the three dimensions of urban ideological height, humanistic thickness and innovation activity, and provide more powerful cultural core support for Longgang to build a cultural center in the eastern part of the Shenzhen metropolitan area and an international cultural and sports activity exchange center.
"It was as if I had listened to a reading theory lesson. Especially hearing that reading has the 'useless use' view that reading changes a person's mood and temperament is even more enlightening, helping me to understand reading deeper and more comprehensively. ”
Listening closely to the dialogue of famous artists on the Hehu Forum, Zhao Rong, a teacher at Shenzhen Information Vocational and Technical College, took a lot of notes. Last year, Zhao Rong's family was selected as one of the "Top Ten Books" in Longgang District, and as a member of the Longgang District Reading Public Welfare Organization, Zhao Rong said that she could not wait to share the insights of experts with her family and book friends.
On the same day, the first Crane Lake Forum in 2022 was held simultaneously. On the stage, Hehu famous artists talked freely around "Reading for All: Individuals, Cities and Nationalities". Wang Jingsheng, winner of the UNESCO Confucius Medal, general adviser of the Shenzhen Reading Month Organizing Committee and general adviser of Hehu Think Tank, Yin Changlong, director of the Culture, Culture and History Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, founding president of the Shenzhen Reading Federation, and expert of Hehu Think Tank, and Han Zhanning, secretary general of Hehu Think Tank, had a dialogue. Offstage, reading promoters, cultural volunteers and public reading enthusiasts in Longgang District listened to famous artists recite famous passages and shared their insights and experiences on reading.
Last year, the cultural development of Longgang District was blessed by the "external brain". Crane Lake Think Tank, which is positioned as a "decision-making think tank, creative engine and resource treasure house", was officially established. The first batch of think tank members brought together 39 well-known experts and scholars in the field of domestic culture, such as Fan Jinshi, Wang Jingsheng and Fan Xi'an.
The new power of wisdom brings a new atmosphere of culture. Experts from Crane Lake Think Tank visited Longgang on the spot, and participated in the first plenary meeting of the think tank, The Crane Lake Forum and other activities, the participating experts opened a series of brainstorming, made suggestions and suggestions for the development of Longgang culture, helped Longgang combine local realities, carried out systematic top-level design of cultural development, identified the development orientation and path, and provided cultural support for Longgang to build a high-level Shenzhen eastern center.
Combined with the existing cultural heritage and resource endowments, Longgang has formed the development idea of building a cultural strong area of "five cities and one corridor". The "City of Reading" is an important part of the development strategy of "five cities and one corridor" in Longgang District.
To realize this vision, Longgang already has a good realistic foundation. At present, Longgang is already a national reading demonstration base for the whole people, the reading service system for the whole people has been continuously improved, and the non-governmental reading organizations have been active, and in recent years, Longgang has held an average of more than 2,000 reading activities per year.
This year, Longgang District will further promote reading for all, and more than 1,000 reading activities throughout the year will meet with the public. From the three aspects of reading new scenes, new spaces and new platforms, the series of activities focused on launching two major national reading series brand activities of "Reading Crane Lake" and "Reading Longgang", and held nearly 100 reading activities such as "Longgang Lecture Hall" famous cultural lectures, "Banyan Tree Head Book Field" traditional book evaluation activities, and "100 Thousand Homes" Reading Power Improvement Plan, so that the whole urban area was filled with the fragrance of books.
Looking back, Longgang has a good gene for promoting reading. A hundred years ago, Longgang was the hakka homeland in the east of Shenzhen, and the atmosphere of heavy literature and worship was strong. The circulation of books has continued to this day, and Longgang has given birth to a number of new forces in the Shenzhen literary phalanx, becoming a literary garden with rich works in eastern Shenzhen.
Nowadays, the Crane Lake Think Tank has been established, and cultural masters frequently visit Longgang to communicate and interact with the citizens, enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the citizens in the collision of ideas, and help enhance the ideological height of the urban area.
"The lights of bookstores are always the warmest lights in the world. The city is perfect with thousands of lights, but many lights are not yours. The only thing that belongs to you is the light of reading. Yin Changlong shared in the lecture.
Library stories are often accompanied by warmth. "When I think about my life over the years, the best place is the library. Never forget you for the rest of your life. In 2020, migrant worker Wu Guichun gave a message to dongguan library, warming countless netizens.
The library guarantees people's equal reading rights and is the embodiment of the inclusiveness of a city's public cultural service system.
As an industrial region, longgang district has paid attention to the reading needs of migrant workers more than ten years ago.
In 2007, the first labor service library was established in Longgang District. The museum is located in the Lianchuang Science and Technology Park in Nanwan Street, covering an area of 400 square meters, with a collection of 20,000 books, and migrant workers can borrow and return books through the Network. This is the first time that Longgang District has established a library branch in the industrial park.
The library is a witness to the industrial transformation and upgrading of Longgang District.
In the process of urban industrial transformation and upgrading, many former processing factories in Longgang District have become modern science and technology parks, and the demographic structure of the urban area has also changed. Longgang dynamically adjusts public cultural service resources, and now there are more and more park libraries that are open, modern and targeted to serve specific talent groups.
Surrounded by greenery next to the office buildings, the busy Tian'an Yungu Park has created a quiet and natural world. Working upstairs, reading downstairs, young people enjoy reading time in the Tian'an Yungu Science and Technology Art Branch Museum, chasing their work ideals, looking for poetry and far away places.
"Opening the library to the enterprise park is one of the characteristics of the library construction in Longgang District. The role of cultural services in promoting the optimization of the business environment is reflected in this. The relevant person in charge of the Longgang District Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau said that at present, there are 7 longgang district library branches in Longgang District Galaxy World, Tian'an Cloud Valley, Tian'an Cyber City, Kangli City, TusPark Xiexin and other enterprise parks and science and technology parks.
Since 2007, Longgang District has promoted the construction of the main branch of the library, and has basically formed a service network of the main branch of the district, street and community libraries. At present, there are more than 300 libraries and book bars and bookstores in the district, and the total collection of libraries is nearly 6 million volumes. The new District Children's Library will be opened within the year, and the District Second Children's Library is stepping up construction.
The development trajectory of public reading spaces such as libraries reflects the continuous improvement of the construction of public cultural service system in Longgang District, and also fully demonstrates the hungry and eager spirit of learning of citizens.
In the future, a number of high-quality, high-value, multi-format new reading spaces are expected to be completed in Longgang in the future.
Yi Yukun, member of the Standing Committee of the Longgang District CPC Committee and director of the Publicity Department, revealed that in the next step, Longgang will bring new scenes of composite cultural experience integrating reading, learning, exchange and leisure to the public by building new reading spaces such as science and technology libraries, movie book bars, green field book bars, and mobile book houses.
"Reading for all is the basic project for the Chinese nation to move toward great rejuvenation, which is related to whether China can become an innovative country and stand at the top of world civilization."
Wang Jingsheng said in the lecture that the relationship between reading and innovation is inseparable, and reading has a wide and far-reaching impact on a nation, which is of great significance to the rise of a nation.
Wang Jingsheng said that the relationship between reading and innovation can be understood from four aspects: first, reading is the engine of innovation, and reading provides a hotbed for innovation; second, reading provides an ideological path and provides a knowledge base for innovation; third, the whole chain of reading accompanies innovation; fourth, the atmosphere and atmosphere of reading for the whole people, creating a good ecological environment for innovation.
Innovation has allowed Shenzhen to bid farewell to the remote corner it once had. The city uses innovation to keep young people in their footsteps and achieve young dreams. This spirit of innovation also feeds back into the city, making Shenzhen move towards a global benchmark city with competitiveness, innovation and outstanding influence.
According to the "National Innovative City Innovation Capacity Evaluation Report 2021" released by the China Institute of Science and Technology Information of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Shenzhen ranked first in the top ten national innovative cities in 2021.
Among them, it is inseparable from the driving force of reading for all.
Shenzhen is the only city to be awarded the title of "Global Model City for Reading for All" by UNESCO.
In the 41 years since the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, the "Shenzhen Reading Month", which was founded in 2000, has been held for 22 years, creating a cultural pure land in this highly busy city, making reading for the whole people into a conscious action, and being evaluated by the outside world as "this is a noble persistence".
Wang Jingsheng said that Shenzhen's innovation index and reading index are highly overlapping, seemingly accidental is not accidental, the relationship between the two is mutually reinforcing, reading provides the best environment and atmosphere for the road of urban innovation. Reading fosters innovative ideas, and reading drives innovative development. Looking around the world, the most innovative countries are often the countries with the most popular reading among their citizens. The country with the strongest innovation ability in the world is Israel, which has the most innovative achievements and the highest conversion rate, and is also the country with the highest per capita reading capacity in the world, with 64 books per capita reading per year.
Focusing on the eastern part of Shenzhen, Longgang is an important supporting force for shenzhen's innovation "source power".
This year, Longgang District was listed in the "CCID Top 100 Innovative Districts", ranking tenth in the country. This year's Longgang District Government Work Report shows that in the past year, Longgang District's total social R&D investment accounted for 11.2% of GDP, and the number of PCT international patent applications was 7504, all of which ranked first in the city.
The "tinder" of innovation needs to be carefully cultivated, and reading by the whole people is conducive to tapping the potential of innovation. Building a "City of Reading" will continue to create a good innovation ecological environment for Longgang, stimulate the vitality of innovation and creation, and promote Longgang to build a highland of scientific and technological innovation with global competitiveness and influence.
Attached: A picture to understand the annual activity menu of the "City of Reading" in Longgang District
[Reporter] Liu Yueya
【Photo】 Zhu Hongbo (partly for the correspondent photo)
【Author】 Liu Yueya; Zhu Hongbo
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client