More than 80 activities at second Vietnam Book and Reading Culture Day in Ho Chi Minh City

ABO/NDO- The second Vietnam Book and Reading Culture Day in Ho Chi Minh will feature many attractive and meaningful activities, in various locations around the city, from April 19-23.

The exhibition spaces will be arranged to feature more than 300 documents and 30,000 book titles, especially the display of the book titled “Resolutely and persistently fighting against corruption and negativity, contributing to building a purer and stronger Party and State” and other works by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and documents and publications commemorating the 48th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and the national reunification (April 30, 1975 – 2023) and the 137th anniversary of the International Labour Day (May 1, 1886 – 2023).

Leaders of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Information and Communications present flowers to reading ambassadors during 2023-2024 tenure. (Photo: NDO).

The organising board will also introduce and replicate reading culture models such as Business Bookcase, Community Bookcase and Family Bookcase, as well as introduce interesting and useful titles with diverse genres and topics, meeting the reading demand of readers.

In addition, more than 80 exchange programmes, seminars, forums and book contests will be held within the framework of the second Vietnam Book and Reading Culture Day, in Ho Chi Minh City.

Notably, many significant activities celebrating the second Vietnam Book and Reading Culture Day will be held at the Paris Commune Square. Specifically, the organising board will announce and organise exchanges with ten Reading Culture Ambassadors.

On the occasion, the publishing houses in the city jointly organised activities to provide people and children, in difficult circumstances, with books and launched the annual Day of free books (April 21).

(Source: NDO)