“Reading Month” activity leads Cixi’s new trend of civilization
- Details
- Category: Ningbo District
- Published: Friday, 08 May 2020 13:04
In 2001, Cixi launched the first "Reading Month" activity. The activity has been held once a year for twenty years, with growing social influence. The officer of the publicity department of Ningbo Municipal Committee said, “In recent years, Cixi has championed a culture of reading among our people to improve the happiness index and promote the image of urban civilization. Now, reading spaces has been spread across the city and the countryside, all kinds of reading organizations are emerging and reading brands are rising rapidly. Thousands of people has joined the reading activity, making people more knowledgeable and the city more tasteful.”
Emerging reading spaces have become important practice of civilization in a new era. People in Cixi can read books and think in more than 600 public reading spaces, such as town libraries, staff libraries and rural studies. The rural study of Maosantou Village, Qiaotou Town is Zhejiang's first rural mobile digital library. Relying on the online community service platform, villagers can read anytime anywhere. Cai Yuqing, a villager of Maosantou Village said, “More people reading, less playing cards. Reading makes people wealthy and wisdom, the relationship between neighborhoods more harmonious.”