How citizens can create a scholarly China

——Members of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference recommend reading for all during the 13th Five-Year Plan

In the draft outline of the 13th Five-Year Plan, “reading for all” has been listed as something to be implemented in the next five years One of the major cultural projects. Some members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference who participated in the two sessions have suggested that all people should read during the 13th Five-Year Plan.

How to standardize and equalize reading resources?

According to statistics from the Ministry of Culture, as of the end of 2014, there were 3,117 public libraries in the country, and the per capita book collection nationwide was 0.58. Our country's public librarianship still has outstanding problems such as insufficient total capacity, unbalanced regional development, serious shortage of funds, and low book circulation rate.

Wu Zhiming, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, suggested increasing efforts to build smart self-service libraries, promoting reading machines, and extending the lending service functions of traditional libraries.

Members believe that with the establishment and improvement of a basic reading facility system with scientific planning, efficient services, and coverage of urban and rural areas, public cultural services including reading resources will gradually achieve standardization and equalization. .

How to promote “deep reading” in the digital era?

Wu Zhiming said that overall, shallow reading, light reading, and extensive reading are still the mainstay, which is quite different from the current vision of advocating reading for all and building a scholarly society. He suggested that new media reading should be scientifically guided to enhance knowledge and depth.

Cai Jianguo, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said that the government should strengthen policy guidance, change the current situation of mobile phone reading content being mainly online novels and short articles, activate the online market for book copyrights, and convert more high-quality books into electronic content .

In the era of online shopping, how can physical bookstores break through?

In recent years, physical bookstores across the country have been struggling due to the impact of low prices in online bookstores, changes in reading and purchasing habits, and rising operating costs. In the Internet age, how can physical bookstores break through?

Wu Zhiming suggested that the government should include the construction land for physical bookstores such as Xinhua Bookstore into the "non-profit public cultural facility land" in the national "Allotted Land Catalog", and rent the government's idle properties at low rents Or provide it to bookstore operators for free.

Many committee members believe that although part of the book sales market has been dominated by online merchants, there are still a large number of readers who prefer to hang out in physical bookstores. Physical bookstores should actively explore diversified business models, accelerate the construction of their own online service networks, and provide comprehensive services to readers.