From April 23 to 25, the first National Reading Conference was held in Beijing. China News Service reporter Zhao Jun photographed
Beijing, April 25 (Xinhua) -- On april 25, the "Reading New Era, Striving for a New Journey" reading and recitation activity for the whole people was held in Beijing. The host and the guests recited the "Proposal for Reading for All" together, calling on the whole people to join the ranks of reading, cultivate their self-cultivation, and strive for self-improvement. With the end of the reading and reading activities for the whole people, the first national reading conference was successfully concluded.
From April 23 to 25, a total of 23 activities in four categories of forums, exhibitions, news releases and theme activities were held during the first National Reading Conference, which further strengthened the reading leadership of the people, cultivated a new style of reading, promoted reading for the whole people, and promoted the formation of a strong atmosphere of "loving reading, reading good books, and reading well" in the whole society through diversified forms.
Light up the night of the book-scented capital city
The Chinese nation has advocated reading since ancient times. As a spiritual and cultural activity, reading carries the dream of the Chinese home and country, has been integrated into the cultural blood of the Chinese nation, and has become the spiritual support for the endless life and rejuvenation of Chinese civilization.
In order to meet the people's high demand for reading activities, the local reading authorities have launched wonderful and colorful reading brand activities for the whole people.
From April 23 to 25, the first National Reading Conference was held in Beijing. China News Service reporter Zhao Jun photographed
As a national cultural center, Beijing actively makes good use of the "rich mine" of living cultural resources and continues to improve the construction level of "Shuxiang Capital". During the conference, the launching ceremony of the Beijing Reading Season and the theme activity of "LightIng Up the Reading Lamp" were held, encouraging and mobilizing the city's reading spaces, physical bookstores, distribution units and other related places and digital reading platforms to carry out reading linkage, and held more than 2,000 reading activities such as writer signing, new book release, and classic recitation.
Shuxiang China Beijing Reading Season also organized the theme activity of "Light Up the Reading Lamp" in the city's characteristic reading space, jointly extended business hours, and carried out the topic interaction of "#Light Up a Reading Lamp# on new media platforms such as Weibo and Kuaishou" to jointly light up the night of The Book Fragrance In Beijing.
The appeal of paper books is undiminished
The fragrance of books and flowers flew together, and reading for the whole people became the norm. At the site of the First National Reading Conference, the results of the 19th Chinese National Reading Survey were officially released. The survey results show that the per capita paper book reading of Chinese adults in 2021 was 4.76, higher than the 4.70 in 2020. The number of e-books read per capita was 3.30, up from 3.29 in 2020.
The appeal of paper books is undiminished. According to the survey, 45.6% of adult citizens in 2021 are inclined to "take a paper book to read", an increase of 2.2 percentage points over 2020.
At the same time, the reading rate of chinese adult national books was 59.7%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points over 2020; the reading rate of books for minors aged 0-17 was 83.9%, an increase of 0.5 percentage points over 2020.
Digital reading is sought after
As an important way to promote the construction of reading for all and the construction of a bookish society in the new era, digital reading is increasingly welcomed and sought after by the "Z generation". According to the "2021 China Digital Reading Report" (hereinafter referred to as the Report) released by the Digital Reading Sub-forum of the First National Reading Conference and the 8th Digital Reading Annual Conference, the scale of China's digital reading users will reach 506 million in 2021, with a growth rate of 2.43%. Among them, 44.63% are users aged 19-25, 27.25% are users under 18 years old, and "Generation Z" has become the main force of digital reading.
Digital reading has developed rapidly in China, forming a pattern of diversified content themes. The report shows that by the end of 2021, among the 32,046,200 online literary works on the shelves, the top five categories of theme distribution are ancient sayings, fantasy fantasy, urban life, martial arts immortals, and supernatural science fiction. E-books mainly focus on literary novels, biographies, history and social sciences, teaching materials and economic management.
With the continuous development of the policy and legal environment, the economic and social environment, and the scientific and technological innovation environment, the digital reading industry has maintained a good momentum of development, and the results of overseas innovation have been remarkable. The report shows that in 2021, the total number of Chinese digital reading works going to sea is more than 400,000, the main overseas areas are North America, Japan and South Korea, and Southeast Asia, and the theme types are mainly urban workplaces, fantasy fantasy, and martial arts immortals, and have shown a multi-regional, multilingual, multi-theme, multi-genre, multi-model development trend.
Audible reading is in the limelight
Audio reading spreads classics, spreads virtues, and transmits temperature through sound, which optimizes people's reading methods to a certain extent, changes the pattern of reading for all, and the future is promising.
On the afternoon of the 25th, in the fragrance of Yingying books and the sound of Lang Lang books, as the "grand finale drama" of the first national reading conference, the "reading new era and new journey of striving" the national reading and recitation activity called on the whole people to join the ranks of reading, cultivate their self-cultivation, and make unremitting efforts: "In the voluminous volumes, the light of wisdom penetrates history, the ideological value spans time and space, and those brilliant masterpieces that are like stars warm our hearts, cultivate our sentiments, and enlighten our wisdom... Let us take action, insist on reading every day, everyone participates in reading, all aspects of society promote reading, and set off a wave of reading for the whole people! (End)