On the eve of the 27th World Book Day, the 2022 "Reading Beijing" Capital Citizens Reading Series Cultural Activity Conference sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism was held at 14:00 on April 21 at the Lecture Hall of Block A of the Capital Library.
The theme of the press conference was "Melting the Ancient and Casting the Present to the Future, Continuing the Context and Starting a New Journey". 2022 is the year of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, "Reading Beijing" will be the annual activities around the "Reading Beijing", "Reading Classics" and "To the Future" three major activity list planning and organization implementation, will hold the city's reading competition, "Top Ten Excellent Reading Spaces - Grassroots Libraries Around the People" promotion activities, "Reading with My Growth" theme activities, "the most beautiful book reviews" collection and selection activities.
It is understood that the Capital Library, as a public cultural service institution for preserving the memory of Beijing, at the press conference of "Reading Beijing" in April 2021, the first picture and the Beijing Municipal Winter Olympic Organizing Committee launched the joint construction of the "Beijing Youth Winter Olympic Education Base", and since then planned a variety of cultural activities, so that the city's primary and secondary school students in the theme reading and answering questions, striving to be the "charming Winter Olympics" Winter Olympic knowledge explainer, drawing gifts for the Winter Olympic athletes and other special activities, dedicated to the Winter Olympics companion "first" ceremony. It conveys the memories of the Double Olympic Games, which bear profound cultural heritage.
At the press conference, Sun Bin, director of the Education and Public Participation Division of the Information and Publicity Department of the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee, presented commendation certificates to the first picture, the award-winning schools and student representatives. In order to let more people draw strength from the lens of the Winter Olympics, the Capital Library, together with the Library Society of China, the China Pictorial Publishing House and other units, opened the national tour exhibition of "100 Photographers Focus on the Ice and Snow Olympics", and the first stop of the tour will be opened on April 26 in the Culture and Art Exhibition Hall of Block A of the Capital Library.
It is worth mentioning that in 2022, "Reading Beijing" will recommend excellent science fiction literature books such as "Three-Body Problem" with the theme of "To the Future" in order to stimulate the public's desire for knowledge and exploration. Liu Cixin, two-time winner of the "Hugo Award" and winner of the 10th Galaxy Award, issued the most sincere invitation to the readers on the spot - "Read together, go to the future together".
China Education Book Import and Export Co., Ltd. will donate the series of books in 31 languages exported overseas of "Three-Body" to the Capital Library, and in the future, the new languages of "Three-Body" will be permanently preserved in the first picture, and will also develop theme exhibitions, immersive new reading and other projects, inviting readers to think about the future in the science fiction imagination.
With a history of 3,000 years of founding and 800 years of capital construction, Beijing's geographical location and historical trajectory have shaped Beijing's unique cultural context. The first event of the year", mr. Yan Chongnian, a famous historian, invited mr. Yan Chongnian to bring a lecture on "Beijing Cultural Heritage", calling on and leading everyone to "read Beijing" together.
The Capital Library's "World Book Day" series of themed activities also opened at the same time. On April 23 and 24, the Capital Library will hold three live broadcasts of "Ming and Qing Dynasty Beijing Travel Guide - Beijing in the Ming and Qing Dynasties", "Entering Science Fiction Literature - Literary Imagination of the Science Fiction World", and "Peach Red Willow Green April Day - Understanding Common Spring Flowering Plants" to accompany readers through a rich reading weekend.
The Capital Library will also make full use of the official website of Shoutu, the WeChat service account of Shoutu Digital Library, the WeChat subscription account of Shoutu, and the "Shoutu Animation Online" APP to launch all-age reading promotion activities such as "Original Works, You Recommend Me to Buy, Read Good Books Together", "Hutong Roaming" Animation Series, and "Reading Classic Masterpieces and Enjoy Reading Blind Box".
The Daxing Airport Branch of the Capital Library will explore the new format of deep integration of cultural tourism and launch the "Air Reader" reading promotion activity, passengers can easily read with their mobile phones when scanning the QR code, and can also download the first picture APP to achieve offline reading of the activity book list.
The "Beijing Study Room" Chunmingyi Reading Space will hold 4 online parent-child reading activities. The "Cool Love Book Club , Books Full of Gardens" activity of Xuanyuan Bookstore in Cool Car Town creates a mobile RV library through the four themes of "car + culture", "car + life", "car + art" and "car + technology". Readers can participate in one-stop film screenings, cultural and creative markets, parent-child picture book dramas, traditional puzzle games, learn about classic cars in famous books, participate in writers' signing fairs and other rich activities.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Enjie
Editor/Ying Qiao