The Opening Ceremony of the Fifth Anniversary of "China·Read" at Hangzhou Public Library
On the afternoon of May 29, the opening ceremony of the fifth anniversary of "China·Read" was held at Hangzhou Public Library and distributed by other libraries in other areas. Readers all around the country could watch the online live broadcast.
"China·Read" project was launched in 2017, whose main content was "book recommendation list" every year. The list contains 70 kinds of the most popular books this year that recommended by public libraries in China. In these five years, more than 600 public libraries and 100 experts from 31 provinces were involved, and more than 4.73 million pieces of circulation data were obtained and 283 kinds of books were launched. Besides paper books, the project also held various online and offline activities such as free e-books reading, curators’s book recommendation of new year, mini games and others, which attracted more than 200 thousand readers and helped them know more about the libraries around them where they could join the reading activities.
A series of theme activities which combine reading and tourism together will be held from June to December this year. We hope that these activities with rich content and various forms would promote "China·Read" project into a new level. The 2022 reading list would be published later this year.
The ceremony was opened by "Start Reading in Spring Morning" which reviewed the past, stood at the present and expected the future in order to show how reading could affect human life. Four guests with different working backgrounds were invited and named as the ambassadors of "China·Read" project. They shared their feelings and understanding of reading to the citizens on the ceremony.
Souvenir postcards of "China·Read" were firstly shown to the public in the ceremony. There were totally 7 cards in one set which was designed to conclude the logos of 123 public libraries and school libraries and became special postcards in library sphere. We hope these postcards would stimulate the enthusiasm for reading and enrich the inner world of the readers.
Guests who could not attend the ceremony, such as the Director of National Library of China, Xiong Yuanming, and the Secretary General of Library Society of China, Wang Yanxing and others, also send their supports and congrats to the project through video massages.
