Book exhibition celebrating 55 years of implementing President Ho Chi Minh's testament
Attending the opening ceremony of the book exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City were Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Thanh Lam, Director of the Department of Publishing, Printing and Information and Communications Distribution Nguyen Nguyen, Director of the Institute of National Defense Strategy - Lieutenant General Nguyen Duc Hai... and representatives of ministries, branches and central agencies.
With a total area of nearly 2,000 square meters, the exhibition displays and introduces to readers nearly 3,000 books and specialized information by many authors about the life, career, ideology, and implementation of President Ho Chi Minh's will.
Some typical publications introduced at the exhibition include: Ho Chi Minh Heritage Bookcase with 62 books; Innovation - integration - development and Party building and rectification under the guidance of Ho Chi Minh's ideology; 5 national treasure works, including: Revolutionary Path, Prison Diary, National Call for Resistance, Call for Compatriots and Soldiers nationwide, Testament...
Through the book exhibition activities, the Vietnam Publishing Association hopes to contribute to promoting and spreading publications about President Ho Chi Minh and implementing his will, promoting the movement of studying and following the ideology, morality and style of President Ho Chi Minh, and developing a reading culture in the community.
Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Lam - Deputy Minister of Information and Communications - said: "The book exhibition as well as the book culture space today is a small bridge but contributes to making Vietnam a prosperous and happy country.
This space will be an opportunity for readers to gain a deeper understanding of Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, the country’s history, and national culture. I hope and believe that after today’s exhibition, this place will become an interesting cultural destination of the city.”
The exhibition will take place for 2 weeks from August 29 to September 14, 2024 at the community library and will be held online on the website of the Vietnam Publishing Association.
Opening of The Wiselands community book cafe space
The Wiselands community book cafe space is a free community book library space with an initial scale of nearly 5,000 good quality books, new books introduced directly from publishers and distributors to help readers have close access to books.
The special feature of the library system is the combination of activities that form a chain of reading culture development.
This is a community (licensed) book library where book lovers and philanthropists can donate their books so that others can have access to good books and read books for free.
The goal in 2024 and 2025 is for the library to have 15,000 - 20,000 free books and increase the number of points selling cultural support products and readers coming to read books in each neighborhood to 7-10 points.
Talking about promoting reading culture, Mr. Trinh Quang Phu - Director of the Oriental Development Research Institute expressed: "First of all, we must make parents as well as political organizations aware of reading culture.
Build a movement for everyone to read books, and at the same time bring books to the countryside for young people, women, and farmers. The more they read, the more their intelligence will expand, and advanced civilization will come to everyone very gently.
This is a new model, being tested and continuously improved from ideas, management quality to applied technology. The library hopes to bring a different space for reading, exchanging and connecting for those who love books, love cultural knowledge, contributing a small part to the construction of a knowledgeable and powerful Vietnam.
