The First National Reading Conference , The Most Beautiful Bookstore of the Year " was released in Beijing on April 24 , and a total of 46 bookstores across the country won the title of "Most Beautiful Bookstore of the Year".
The event was guided by the Printing and Distribution Bureau of the Central Propaganda Department and sponsored by the China Book Publishing Industry Association. The 46 bookstores that won the "Most Beautiful Bookstore of the Year" this time cover 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and were determined after strict review on the basis of nationwide solicitation.
These "most beautiful bookstores of the year" have diverse types and distinctive characteristics, representing the development results of the transformation and upgrading of physical bookstores in recent years, including state-owned bookstore brands such as Xinhua Bookstore and private bookstore brands; both comprehensive large-scale book cities and small and fine characteristic bookstores; both gorgeous and turned-around old brands of bookstores and new faces of bookstores that are booming.
Let's take a look at these "most beautiful bookstores", where is the beauty?
The beauty of environmental design
The first and second floors of Chengdu Wenxuan BOOKS Jiufang Store will integrate living natural flowers and plants into the overall design environment to create a comfortable and vibrant space. With the theme of civilization and evolution, the third floor creates a number of interesting theme spaces such as chess, ice age, and starry sky stories, creating a dream fairy tale world for children who come to the bookstore.
The beauty of cultural preservation
Close to the central axis of Beijing, PAGEONE Beijing Fang Store connects more than ten "small buildings" located on different floors, taking reading as the starting point, integrating rich contents such as Chinese and foreign classic books, cultural and creative derivatives, coffee leisure, vinyl experience, sound recording, green plant space, cultural exhibitions and activities, etc., to build a unique and comfortable cultural experience space for the public.
The beauty of the red heritage
Zunyi Xinhua Bookstore 1935 Branch, which is close to the Zunyi Conference site, is the first 24-hour non-closing bookstore in Zunyi City. The bookstore has a collection of about 45,000 books, of which red books and Chinese studies books account for about 50% of the total. The store has functional partitions such as display area, reading area, experience area and activity area, which highlights the theme of red culture regardless of the decoration layout or book selection, and the types of red books are richer and more complete than other bookstores.
The beauty of format innovation
Founded in 2002, Xi'an Jiahui Hantang Book City has completed its full upgrading and transformation in 2019, and meets the public with a new attitude. Jiahui Hantang Book City has not only carried out hardware decoration and upgrading, but also upgraded the business format, transformed from a book store into a cultural space based on books and built a variety of supporting services, and relied on big data to release book rankings to readers.
The beauty of integrated development
Founded in January 2021, Changsha Lezhi Bookstore Orange Island Store fully promotes the in-depth development of reading for all, strives to create the sustainable vitality and strong viability of the bookstore, and also gives new vitality to the former site of the cultural relics protection building Mobil Foreign Firm. Lezhi Bookstore Orange Island Store is deeply engaged in the main business of books, supplemented by cultural creation, coffee and light meals, salon activities, minors education, etc., integrating the publishing and distribution resources of Zhongnan Media, holding a large number of multicultural salon activities, and creating an "urban cultural living room". The bookstore plans to hold an average of 500 cultural salon activities per year, such as new book sharing sessions, film salons, English salons, immersive dramas, picture book story clubs, etc. are well received by readers, and the composite cultural experience is integrated in the beauty of the space.
The first National Reading Conference and the list of the most beautiful bookstores of the year
(In no particular order)
Note: The image is provided by the China Book Publishing Industry Association
(Reporter Luo Xin Shi Jingnan)