The three-day 3rd National Conference on Reading kicked off in Kunming, Southwest China s Yunnan Province, on Tuesday. The first event of its kind kicked off in 2022 with a congratulatory letter sent from Chinese President Xi Jinping, in which he described reading as
This is the fourth installment of the Global Times Year-end Special on culture. It will guide readers through the creative changes in book industry in 2023. Those creative changes not only include new strategies such as
Tapping your fingers on the screen, your favorite books will be delivered to your door within a cou-ple of hours. Who would have thought that cultural consumption in China could become as easy as ordering a sandwich? Yet, it is now happening at many libraries across the country, including a most recent case, a books-to-go program that has been launched by the Chengdu Library in Chengdu, Southwest China s Sichuan Province.