On December 28, 80,000 books and tens of thousands of newspapers and magazines left the warehouse that was about to be repossessed at the end of the month and entered a "new home," a creative park in Songjiang, where a new second-hand bookstore will be planned in the future.
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On the afternoon of December 4 this year, a reporter from the Morning News suddenly received a call from Zhu Fengtao, the owner of Xiaozhu Bookstore. In the phone call, Zhu Fengtao said that the bookstore's two warehouses have recently expired, with a storage capacity of about 180,000 books, and these books are facing the dilemma of having nowhere to store, and some of them can only be sent away.
The warehouse and the old books inside are piled up
On December 1, before the first warehouse was about to be recovered, Zhu Fengtao donated about 100,000 books to Yueyang, Hunan Province, through volunteer matchmaking, and on the same day, trucks transported the books from Shencheng to Yueyang. For these book collections, Zhu Fengtao is actually reluctant in his heart, and he calls this book donation "marrying a daughter":
These books are all collected by me over the years. The books were carried from 8 a.m. to about 4 p.m., loaded with a full cart of 12 meters long, a cart of books weighing about 25 tons, and about 100,000 volumes.
On December 1, Zhu Fengtao stood in front of a truck transporting books from the expired warehouse to Yueyang, Hunan Province
Because another warehouse will expire on December 31 and be repossessed, Zhu Fengtao was very anxious at the time: "People are good things come in pairs, but I am in difficulty, I don't know if I can pass the customs this time?"
Morning News Zhou Zhi has been paying attention to the development of Xiaozhu Bookstore for more than ten years, and after reporting on the situation of Xiaozhu Bookstore, it has quickly attracted the attention of all aspects of society. Many citizens and netizens have provided information through various channels, and many enterprises and institutions have also reached out to help. Since December 5th, the reporter and colleagues from the 021 video team of the News Morning Post have been busy, in addition to replying to netizens' messages, they have to forward some specific information and willingness to cooperate to Zhu Fengtao in a timely manner.
Below the 021 video Weibo, netizens have left messages to lend a hand (partial)
On the evening of December 9, Zhu Fengtao was a guest on the news night program of the news comprehensive channel
After paying attention to the situation of Xiaozhu Bookstore, a district leader in Songjiang District suggested that enterprises with conditions in the district could free up some space for these old books to be stored. A number of units in Songjiang District have docked with Xiaozhu Bookstore.
Among them, the first to throw an olive branch of "Yunbao Future City" is an art and cultural park located in Dongjing Town, Songjiang District, with the theme of art creation, art appreciation and art consumption, and has just been rated as a national 4A-level tourist attraction in June this year. For Xiao Zhu Bookstore, the park gave the greatest sincerity, and Zhu Fengtao also went to the park to investigate the site three times.
The park said that it hopes to use books as a medium and be beautiful with what you encounter. Bathe in the fragrance of books, "read" to see the most beautiful. It is hoped that through cooperation, Xiaozhu Bookstore will be built into a second-hand bookstore with the largest exhibition area in the country, and open up the "last mile" to further promote national reading and enrich the spiritual and cultural life of citizens.
Recalling the situation when everyone helped carry it early in the morning of December 28, Zhu Fengtao was very emotional:
Considering that the morning rush hour is very congested, I told the volunteers that it was okay to start moving after 10 a.m., but the driver arrived in a truck at 9 a.m. Because the warehouse is in the community, and the truck is seven meters long, it cannot be parked in the community, so the truck is parked next to the road.
The park arranged five employees to help with the removal yesterday. The 10 volunteers from the Lions Club not only contributed but also covered the transportation costs of two trucks, and even took care of their own lunch.
The book move on December 28 was also helped by caring people for social welfare
On December 28, everyone relayed the 80,000 books to the temporary warehouse
According to Zhu Fengtao, after the first car of books was loaded, the employees and volunteers were exhausted, so when the second car of books was loaded, the volunteers paid 1,200 yuan to hire several porters to help carry them. By 4 p.m., the more than 80,000 books in the warehouse and tens of thousands of newspapers and magazines were finally loaded onto two trucks.
At five o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, trucks full of books arrived in the park, and the park organized more than a dozen employees and volunteers to help unload and carry the books, and everyone relayed the 80,000 books, newspapers and magazines to the temporary warehouse. After the second car was unloaded, it was already late, and the time showed that it was already eight o'clock in the evening. Although the day's handling work is a bit larger, everyone has no complaints.
Zhu Fengtao told reporters that he met the designer in the park before and made preliminary sharing and exchanges. According to the design plan, the area of the bookstore should be four or five hundred square meters, with an independent area on the floor to display books, and the plan will set up special categories such as "Shanghai theme", "red theme" and "good life". After New Year's Day, he would go to the park again to discuss further details of the bookstore.
"I didn't expect two windows to be closed (editor's note: referring to the two warehouses that expired in December), and now another window door has been opened for me!" Zhu Fengtao said happily.