The Origin of Shenzhen Reading Month

The Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government established and held a large-scale comprehensive reading cultural activity for the public in 2000, and the time was 1 1 to 30/every year. According to Baidu Encyclopedia, Shenzhen Reading Month is a large-scale comprehensive public reading cultural activity founded and held by the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government in 2000. The time is 10/130 every year. Shenzhen Reading Month adheres to the aim of building a scholarly society and realizing citizens' cultural rights, and takes "reading, progress and harmony" as the general theme, striving to improve citizens' quality and build a learning city. Hundreds of reading cultural activities are held every year, creating many well-known brand activities, such as Shenzhen reading forum, classic poetry recitation, top ten books of the year, leaders' recommendation books, poets' world and so on. The number of participants increased year by year, from the initial 10.