The Opening Ceremony of the 21st Reading Festival

At the dawn of the 29th World Book Day, Taizhou University’s 21st Reading Festival was launched on April 18th on Linhai Campus. Present at the opening ceremony were Li Junmin, Member of the CPC TU Standing Committee and Vice President, and Cai Haijiang, Member of the CPC TU Standing Committee and Head of Department of Publicity. The opening ceremony was presided over by Pan Yao, Secretary of the University Youth League Committee.

The prelude to the Reading Festival was the warm-up recitation of “Flying with Dreams”, which has brought teachers and students a poetic depiction and passionate praise of reading.

Li Junmin declared the opening of the Reading Festival. In her speech, Li fully affirmed the achievements of the library, the University Youth League Committee, and academic schools in organizing previous reading festivals and ushering in the campus reading trend. She emphasized the importance of reading festivals and reading activities for cultural construction. As a large study room for lifelong learning, a new highland for the inheritance and innovation of local spirit and culture, our university will further promote its connotative development through cultural construction. She explained that the theme “Heart-to-Heart Integration, Beauty in Common” required us to promote integrated reading, interdisciplinary reading, and the common return to reading by both teachers and students. She hoped that the reading festival could further inherit and promote Hehe Culture, advocate harmony in diversity and beauty in common, foster young students through enhancing reading literacy, and cultivate an open and inclusive campus culture.

Wu Shiyong, director of the University Library, delivered a speech on behalf of the organizers, introducing the activities of the reading festival and its theme. He hoped that through this reading festival, readers could move from individual subjects to full subjects, expand cognitive boundaries, and promote reading integration. Wang Ling, Party Secretary of the Library, announced the documents of the 21st Reading Festival and launched an initiative, hoping that through reading students can cultivate their minds, hone their willpower, and comprehend philosophy and wisdom in life.

Book Donation Ceremony

A book donation ceremony was also held at the opening ceremony. The University Library has received over 500 classic books donated by Mr. Shi Chunbo, an outstanding alumnus and a well-known media figure in Zhejiang. At the ceremony, a book collection certificate was issued by Cai Haijiang.

Chen Lingqiang, Party Secretary of the School of Humanities, shared the significance of reading and his own experience as the teacher representative. He pointed out the necessity to cultivate the habit of reading every day, persist in writing while reading, and read with critical thinking. Xia Mingkang, a student from the University Reader Service Association, exchanged his reading experiences as the student representative. He expressed his intention to create more diversified reading activity brands and work together with reading lovers to broaden their horizons, cultivate their thinking ability, and nourish their spiritual home through reading.

After the opening ceremony, the School of Humanities launched an immersive reading activity called “Spring Reading with Classics”. Later there will be more than 40 kinds of activities online and offline for the students to feel the fragrance of books, and experience the joy of reading.

Present at the opening ceremony were also heads of relevant university departments, the Party committee of the secondary schools and Branch Youth League Committees, as well as some teacher and student representatives.