The most beautiful April day in the world is a good time to read. On the occasion of the 29th World Book Day, Fengxian District officially opened the 2024 "Scholarly Fengxian" Reading Festival, and innovatively launched the exemplary urban study room "Xian Study", gathering the majestic force of striving to write a new chapter of high-quality development of "Fengxian Beauty and Fengxian Strong" with the sound of Langlang books and the strong fragrance of books.
Lay out the "virtuous study" and build a high-quality reading space at the doorstep
Reading for all people is one of the important connotations of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and realizing Chinese-style modernization. General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the content of the scholarly society mentioned in the spirit of Shanghai's important speech, and drew a roadmap from strengthening national reading, to promoting the construction of a scholarly society, and then to improving the degree of modern civilization in society.
In recent years, Fengxian District has promoted the work of national reading as an important cultural and livelihood project, and actively created a social trend of "loving reading, reading good books, and being good at reading". This year, in the specific construction of urban study rooms, Fengxian District grasps the three keys of mission, task and path, integrates the three main bodies of government, society and citizens, anchors the three major links of benchmarking, standards and pilots, deepens the construction of national reading and scholarly society with high-quality development, promotes the reading vitality of urban study rooms, and promotes the construction of urban study rooms from point to point.
The dotted urban study room is the library that opens at the door of the people, forming a "15-minute reading circle" for residents. Shi Jinghua, Secretary of the Party Branch and Director of Fengxian District Library, said, "There are actually many criteria for the selection of Xian Study, but in the final analysis, there are three sentences: the place closest to our people, the place where the people need it most, and the place with the most beautiful environment." ”
Located at No. 5918 Puxing Road, Jinhui Town, the Dai Study is one of the first "Xian Study" in Fengxian District. "Dai Dai" is a Jinhui dialect, which means "here". "Dai Study" has a superior geographical location, convenient transportation, surrounded by a number of commercial housing residential communities and commercial areas, and the permanent population is mainly young people and teenagers, and can radiate more than 20,000 people.
"At first, I didn't expect that our study would be so popular with the people. Zhang Haitao, the head of the operation of the study, was initially surprised, and quickly put himself into intense work. Later, he observed that in addition to the elderly and children who came to participate in the reading activities, and the students who came to do their homework, a considerable number of the visitors to the study room were young people who started their own businesses. "We have WiFi, electricity, and drinking water, and they like to come here very much, and they come here every day or night with their laptops. ”
Zhang Haitao found that most of these young people were new residents who had just moved in. Therefore, he organized a lot of interesting interactive activities, displaying works with local cultural characteristics, such as Jinhui dialect flip cards, cultural and creative products, and intangible cultural heritage shadow puppet works in the study.
"Xian's study needs to make its own character. Zhang Haitao believes that a model urban study room should not only meet the reading culture needs of residents in the community, but also become a platform for the promotion of local culture, so that more new Shanghainese and new residents can quickly integrate.
At this year's work conference on the promotion of the construction of urban study, Fengxian District officially released the image logo of "Xian Study", and announced the first batch of 13 "Xian Study" and the first batch of 11 "City Book Selectors" list, gathering strength for reading and gathering wisdom for the construction of "Scholarly Fengxian".
In addition, according to the requirements of the "Three-Year Action Plan for the Construction of Urban Study Rooms in Fengxian District (2023-2025)", in 2024, Fengxian District will comprehensively promote the construction of urban study rooms in all streets and towns in the district on the basis of the pilot project in 2023, and basically build an urban study group covering the central urban area and various streets and towns, with obvious leading radiation role, and complementary public welfare and operation by 2025. Among them, the total number of demonstration urban study rooms is not less than 30, and at least 3 are built in each town.
Branding activities to further promote national reading
In fact, this year's government work report mentions: "in-depth study and implementation of Xi Jinping's cultural thought" and "deepening national reading activities". This is the 11th consecutive year that "National Reading" has been written into the government work report since 2014. The wording has changed from "advocating" to "vigorously promoting" and then to "in-depth", reflecting the great importance that the state attaches to the work of reading for the whole people.
In this context, the "Scholarly Fengxian" Fengxian District Reading Festival has also entered its 14th year, and through years of continuous careful planning, organization and development, Fengtu has gradually formed a number of independent reading brands. Shi Jinghua, Secretary of the Party Branch and Director of Fengxian District Library, carried out activities around the eight Fengtu activity brands such as "523 Story Meeting", "Yanzi Forum" and "Xianshuhui Reader Salon".
"In 2024, Fengxian District Library will launch more than 300 online and offline reading promotion activities. Shi Jinghua said that last year, the library and the Nine Trees Future Art Center jointly launched the "Theater Reading Club", a sub-project of the Xianshu Collection, to recommend classic books around the repertoire of theater performances. Once the event was launched, it received positive responses and affirmation from readers. "So this year, we once again cooperated with Nine Trees to plan the 2024 Theater Reading Club series of activities with three major performances, including "Gao Bowen Talks about Flowers", "Awakening Age" and "Mansion Gate". ”
As a new brand of the District Library, the Fengtu Exhibition will bring the exhibition "The Wind Rises and the Clouds Fly - The World of the Han Dynasty in the Portrait of the Wuliang Temple" at the end of May, when readers can understand the profound meaning of the sentence "The Wuliang Temple is like a ruler, a word and a painting accurately compared with the long time, and engraved the cosmic picture of the Han Dynasty".
In addition, Yanzi Academy will continue to cooperate with the Jiao Tong Student Innovation Center this year to launch training courses around robotics and artificial intelligence. The voice of the virtuous "I speak for reading" sound activities and the "Looking for urban book selectors" book recommendation activities will also run throughout the year.
"Reading is the best way to learn for individuals, and it is an important ability to accompany people throughout their lives. As far as the society is concerned, it is the most basic cultural construction, vigorously advocating the style of reading, which can spread ideology and culture, improve the quality of the people, inherit the national spirit, and cultivate civilization and fashion. Shi Jinghua said that the recent Library Service Publicity Week will intensively launch reading promotion activities that are popular and loved by readers, such as lectures, collection of sound works, and theater reading clubs. At the same time, the district library will distribute reading activities according to the actual needs of new reading spaces such as the "Xian Study" in various streets and towns, so that people can enjoy high-quality cultural services at their doorsteps and feel the full happiness brought by the "15-minute reading circle".