The spring scenery is just like this, and it is the right time to read. On April 23, the 30th World Reading Day arrived as scheduled.

General Secretary Xi Jinping once said: "I have a lot of hobbies, and my biggest hobby is reading. Reading has become a way of life for me."

The love and obsession for reading runs through Xi Jinping's life trajectory. From the cave in Liangjiahe to the classroom at Tsinghua University, from grassroots work to governing the country, Xi Jinping has always regarded reading and learning as an attitude of life, a responsibility for work, and a spiritual pursuit.

Set the lead and personally advocated that General Secretary Xi Jinping not only loves reading himself, but also has high hopes for deepening national reading and building a "bookish China".

In 2014, at the National Primary School in Haidian District, Beijing, the General Secretary said, "I can now blurt out the ancient poetry and classics, many of which were recited when I was young, and I will benefit for life." In 2016, at a symposium on intellectuals, model workers, and youth representatives, the General Secretary said, "Youth should be hungry and study tirelessly, read more books with words, and read more books with words without words, focusing on learning life experience and social knowledge";

In 2019, when inspecting Lanzhou Reader Publishing Group Co., Ltd., the General Secretary said, "The people read more, Our national spirit will become more profound and profound. We must advocate reading more and build a bookish society";

In 2021, at the opening ceremony of the training class for young and middle-aged cadres of the Central Party School (National School of Administration), the General Secretary said, "We must carry forward the spirit of 'squeezing' and 'drawing', read more and good books, and draw wisdom and nutrition from books";

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"I hope that the whole society will participate in reading and create a strong atmosphere of loving reading, reading good books, and being good at reading." In 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping called this in his congratulatory letter to the first National Reading Conference.

Under the care and promotion of General Secretary Xi Jinping, national reading has been elevated to a national development strategy, providing strong spiritual motivation and intellectual support for the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. In 2016, my country's first national-level "National Reading" plan, "Development Plan for the 13th Five-Year Plan for National Reading" was issued; in 2021, "Deeply Promoting National Reading and Building a 'Book-Fragrant China'" was written into the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the 2035 Vision Goal Outline; in 2022, "Deepening National Reading Activities" was written into the report of the 20th National Congress of the Party; in 2025, "National Reading" was written into the government work report for the 12th consecutive time.

As the wave of digitalization is surging today, convenient digital services make information within reach. In 2024, the number of digital reading users in my country reached 670 million. From the quiet sea of ​​books in the library to the fingertips of digital reading, "Book-flavored China" opens a new page.

"The fragrance of books is an atmosphere." At this year's National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the General Secretary talked about the bookish campus and the bookish society from a family of books, and pointed out that "digital reading should be combined with traditional reading to maintain our core and literacy."

Whether it is digital reading or traditional reading, "loving reading, reading good books, and reading good books" has always been the direction of national reading and everyone's self-improvement.

Reading is related to personal growth and the future of the nation. The prosperity of culture, the prosperity of the country, and the rejuvenation of the nation are all inseparable from the cultural accumulation and spiritual power brought by reading.

The most beautiful thing about books can lead to far-reaching success. Being friends with books and making friends with books is lingering in the fragrance of books. Reading is always a blessing.

Planning: Huang Qinghua, Zhou Nianjun

Writer: Tang Haochen, Li Ziwei, Enhao

Design: Yin Zhelun