Recently, the Central Propaganda Department issued the "Opinions on Promoting National Reading."

Among them, the opinions require strengthening service guarantees, promoting the legalization of reading for all, and supporting social forces to participate in providing public reading services for all.

(Xinhua News Agency, October 22) As the above opinions point out, reading is an important way to acquire knowledge and increase wisdom. It is an important way to inherit civilization and improve the quality of the people. Deeply promoting reading for all people will play a vital role in strengthening the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and

Promoting social progress is of great significance.

It can be said that reading for all is an inevitable, realistic and long-term need of the times.

Therefore, in November 2012, the report of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed “carrying out national reading activities”; since 2014, “advocating national reading” has been included in the government work report of the State Council for seven consecutive years;

***Library Law and other relevant laws clearly propose to promote and protect reading for all.

Today, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has issued relevant opinions to further promote reading for all, vigorously create a good atmosphere of loving reading, reading good books, and being good at reading in the whole society, and guide the people to increase their interest in reading, develop reading habits, improve their reading ability, and continuously enhance

Ideological and moral quality and scientific and cultural quality.

All localities should act vigorously and resolutely, carry out active and comprehensive actions, increase the depth and breadth of participation, and promote local national reading with high quality, making this work an important part of cultural governance.

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To further promote reading for all, government departments are the leaders, the masses are the subjects and beneficiaries, and social forces are important foreign aid, which is an important component in building a national reading service system.

After all, the supply of public cultural products and services, including promoting national reading, is a huge project. The power and resources of government departments are limited, and it is difficult to achieve equalization and in-depth development by relying on the power of government departments alone.

And attracting more social forces to actively participate can enrich the total supply of public cultural products and services, such as the supply of books and reading promotion activities.

In the process of participating in the in-depth promotion of national reading, social forces can also promote themselves.

Therefore, in the above opinions, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China supports the participation of social forces in providing public reading services for all.

The "Regulations on the Promotion of National Reading" also encourages social forces to support the promotion of national reading, such as encouraging and supporting cultural groups, educational institutions and other social organizations to develop professional reading promotion agencies and providing public welfare reading services; encouraging and supporting qualified natural persons and legal persons

On the basis of ensuring the quality of publications and facilities, we and other organizations donate, sponsor, and provide reading services for all... More foreign aid is needed to further promote reading for all.

In recent years, in some places, some catering chain companies have joined hands with publishing houses to launch "Yuedu Shiguang" reading-themed restaurants with "delicious food + book fragrance" as the design starting point, providing the public with not only delicious food, but also spiritual food; there are online

Travel websites join hands with the government and bookstores to launch the "Bring a Book to Travel" free book delivery activity, which organically combines travel and reading; businesses also contribute funds to support writing, publishing, publicity, donations, commendations, seminars and other activities... These foreign aids

These actions have promoted national reading to varying degrees, released a signal of advocating reading, and brought more confidence to relevant departments.

In short, further promoting reading for all is not only the need for each individual to acquire knowledge and grow up, but also the need for social and economic development and the need to improve the quality of the people.

National reading has become popular, and it cannot be separated from foreign aid to "add fuel".