"Reading for all is the basic project for the Chinese nation to rejuvenate"

The 2022 "World Book Day High-end Dialogue" event was held at the 24-hour book bar in Shenzhen Book City Center City.

In order to build a reading exchange platform for the whole people and highlight Shenzhen's pioneering demonstration and cultural responsibility as a "global reading model city for all", on the afternoon of April 21, the 2022 "World Book Day High-end Dialogue" activity was held in the 24-hour book bar in the central city of Shenzhen Book City. This event was the first in a series of activities of the 27th World Book Day of Shenzhen Publishing Group, and opened the prelude to hundreds of world book day activities in Shenzhen. The theme of this high-end dialogue is "Reading for All: Individuals, Cities, And Nations - A Global Model City for Reading for All, Why Shenzhen". Wang Jingsheng, winner of the UNESCO "Confucius Medal" and general counsel of the Shenzhen Reading Month Organizing Committee, and Li Fengliang, secretary of the Party Committee of Southern University of Science and Technology and founding dean of the Cultural Industry Research Institute of Shenzhen University, conducted in-depth discussions on hot topics such as "What contributions can the promotion of reading for all people make to Shenzhen to create a national civilized model city", and the event was presided over by Hu Hongxia, a senior media person and columnist. The event is mainly in the form of online live broadcast.

Shenzhen with reading

"Shenzhen has created many firsts in the national reading"

Since Shenzhen began to do the World Book Day activities, every year during the April 23 period, Wang Jingsheng will definitely publish a big article on reading for all in the central media, thinking about the relationship between the city and reading. This year is no exception, in this dialogue, Wang Jingsheng "spoiled" about his recent thinking, that is, from the three dimensions of individual, city, ethnic to think and study the reading of the whole people, from these three perspectives to talk about the importance of reading and how to promote the problem.

Wang Jingsheng said that the important role of reading for individuals is three sentences: taking pride in reading has become our value concept, reading for pleasure has become our way of life, and reading for use has become the ladder of our progress.

From the city level, Wang Jingsheng said that combined with some understanding and practice of reading for the whole people in Shenzhen over the years. The first Shenzhen is the national reading has created many firsts, for example, we do this book city, the concept of book city in China first appeared from Shenzhen. What is the significance of this book city? It's not just a place to read, it's a way of life, because you can come to the book city to read, you can have fun, you can talk, just like us. Including eating, this has become a leisure and reading lifestyle for the citizens, so they enjoy it. So it's a first.

In addition, the city of libraries is also the first in the country to be proposed. There is also the concept of reading for all people in our reading month, which has developed from Shenzhen to the whole country, and the development of reading month is also learned from us by many cities, and now I see that Guangzhou has begun to do reading month. There is also the 24-hour book bar just mentioned, there was absolutely no in the country before, and Shenzhen was the first. Including us, there are many more, including the concept of one district, one book city, one street and one book bar recognized by the publisher in the city. Shenzhen is also the first to promote the cultivation of how children aged 0-6 start their reading habits, and cooperate with Yale University in the United States to promote this matter and so on.

Reading and innovation

"Reading for all is one of the basic projects for the Chinese nation to move towards great rejuvenation"

Why is Shenzhen doing this? Why can Shenzhen get the global reading model city for all? Wang Jingsheng believes that in fact, it is the definition and profound understanding of the concept of this city with the leaders and citizens of our city. Many people also think that the city is a money-making machine and a place to make money and a place to obtain material life, Shenzhen has realized that the city is a container of culture, just like Mumford said, realizing that the ultimate development of the city will inevitably go through the fight for economy, fight for management, but the final fight is culture.

Wang Jingsheng said that since the day Shenzhen was founded, there has been no problem of competition with any city, because Shenzhen does not compete with any domestic city, whether it is Beijing, Shanghai, or any other kind of city, because the purpose of the central government's establishment of the special zone is to let us lead the Chinese nation to kill a bloody road and go to the world. I hope that our city will eventually be at the top of civilization and the top of the world, not competing with any domestic city. So as a Shenzhen native, I have always felt that the city has this kind of mind, will not compare with others than this and that, we take our road, with the nation to explore their own new road. The core competitiveness of the city is culture, winning or losing with culture, comparing high and low with civilization, and determining success or failure with spirit. This is a very important premise for the launch of reading month.

On the other hand, more directly, to nurture urban culture, we believe that we must start with reading. Comparing various cultural activities, reading is what all citizens need. Meet the cultural rights of citizens through our reading activities.

"The most important thing is that reading itself I give it a concept and definition, reading is the engine of innovation, the mother of innovation. Reading accompanies the whole process of innovation. So how do you make its innovation sustainable and continuous? Must be read. It is hard to imagine that this city has no book fragrance, no reading atmosphere, and he has such a strong and huge innovation. Wang Jingsheng said.

Talk about the relationship between reading for all and the nation. Wang Jingsheng said that reading for the whole people is by no means a separate culture, or a cultural behavior, it is one of the basic projects for our Chinese nation to move toward great rejuvenation. Why from 2014, the 9-year municipal government work report must be read by the whole people every year? Just because it is not a simple cultural system, why do so many cultural activities push out reading for all? Because this is the basic project for our nation to move toward rejuvenation.

Personal & Reading

"The reading atmosphere of the city is formed by each individual and each family"

For Wang Jingsheng to think about reading for the whole people from the three angles of "individual, city and nation", Li Fengliang believes that the whole logic is very clear, from a global perspective, national position, the spirit of the times, Shenzhen expression, and finally put his own city in a vertical Inheritance and innovation of the Chinese nation's thousands of years of cultural context, placed in a horizontal global innovative city development on behalf of the country to participate in global cultural competition, is a very high and very deep expression.

Li Fengliang said that the entire city of Shenzhen is within the framework of the pilot demonstration zone, and Shenzhen has been selected by UNESCO as the world's first model city for all to read. It is actually highly consistent in the internal bloodline and in the consistency of the action goals. The reading atmosphere of a city is actually formed by each individual and each family. Our urban civilization model it is not an illusory existence.

As the first double-first-class university in Shenzhen, Southern University of Science and Technology is a university of science and technology, but we attach great importance to creating this atmosphere of reading for the whole people and reading for the whole school, and teachers and students read together. There are several aspects to this: one is that as a center of the university, we have three libraries, called Lynn Library, Yidan Library, and Han Yong Library, all of which have donations. The whole library is the most beautiful place in the school, and you don't want to leave when you go to the library study room. We also have a 24-hour self-study room, our library in order to promote everyone's reading, set up a year to select the total number of borrowed 10 books, as well as the total longest time in the library of the top 10 students, there are rankings, this is a good reading orientation. We have 6 colleges, each college has its own reading corner, this reading not only has the university of science and technology books, smart city, artificial intelligence science and technology books, as well as cultural, historical and humanistic books, so that we science and technology students, science students to cultivate humanistic quality.

Li Fengliang said that the university has a cultural and artistic expert committee, and the school particularly emphasizes the recommendation of experts. Now through the past few years, hundreds of professors have recommended more than 300 books to their classmates, not only recommended, but also written by everyone with their own reading experience, as well as the reasons for recommendation. There are also some cross-school reading activities, such as reading rafting activities initiated by students from other schools, etc., and this mutual exchange forms an atmosphere of a bookish campus that is jointly promoted.

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The important role of reading for individuals is three sentences: taking pride in reading has become our value, reading for pleasure has become our way of life, and reading for use has become the ladder of our progress. ——Wang Jingsheng, General Counsel of the Shenzhen Reading Month Organizing Committee

Written by: Nandu reporter Xie Xiangnan