Ho Chi Minh City will have 3 more book streets.

TPO - From now until March 2025, Ho Chi Minh City will build and develop more book streets and book spaces in areas such as Binh Tan District, District 7, and Cu Chi District… aiming to contribute to the development of reading culture for local people.

The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has just issued a plan to implement the project "Building book streets, book spaces and developing reading culture" to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Southern Vietnam and the reunification of the country. The plan includes building many new book streets and implementing the program "Equipping 5 million books for local facilities".

With the desire to promote reading culture among the people and gradually fulfill the criteria for UNESCO recognition as the World Book Capital, Ho Chi Minh City leaders have set out directions and many measures to implement them. Among these, the Department of Information and Communications is tasked with developing a plan to survey the reading rate of the city's residents in 2023 and developing solutions to increase the annual reading rate, thereby contributing to the promotion and development of reading culture.

The "Equipping 5 Million Books for Institutions" program in the city will be implemented from February 2024 to March 2025 to contribute to the implementation of this plan.

Nguyen Van Binh Book Street always attracts a large number of visitors.

According to the plan, from now until March 2025, Ho Chi Minh City will build and develop more book streets and book spaces in areas such as Binh Tan District, District 7, and Cu Chi District… to contribute to the development of reading culture for local people.

Furthermore, the city will continue to invest in and upgrade Nguyen Van Binh Book Street to become a distinctive and exemplary destination for cultural, tourism , and publishing activities, promoting the city's reading culture. Thus, along with Nguyen Van Binh Book Street and Thu Duc Book Street, these new book streets will contribute to covering the entire city with reading spaces and book-related cultural spaces.

Readers at the Tet Book Street in the Year of the Dragon

In addition to the permanent Book Streets, the Tet Book Street, held annually at the beginning of spring, also strongly contributes to the development of reading culture in the city.

The Tet Book Fair, held from February 7th to 14th, attracted over 1 million visitors and shoppers, generating sales exceeding 10 billion VND. In addition, the organizers successfully held 63 book exchange and presentation programs. Among these, the Tet book giveaway activity distributed over 16,000 books to visitors at the beginning of the year.

Trong Thinh

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