From 65438 to 0995, the International Publishers Association put forward the idea of "World Reading Day" at the 25th Global Congress, and the Spanish government submitted the plan to UNESCO. Later, Russia thought that "World Reading Day" should also add the concept of copyright. Therefore,1The 28th General Conference of UNESCO1995-16 held on 25th October passed a resolution to officially designate 23rd April as World Book and Copyright Day. This day is also the anniversary of the death of Cervantes and Shakespeare, a famous English writer. 1997 65438+ 10, China Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, the Ministry of Culture, the State Education Commission, the State Science and Technology Commission, the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television, the Press and Publication Administration, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the All-China Women's Federation jointly issued the Notice on Organizing and Implementing the Knowledge Project, proposing to implement the "Reading Project for All".
In 2000, the leading group of the national knowledge project designated 65438+February as "National Reading Month" every year, which is a major project to implement the national knowledge project. In recent years, various publicity activities have been organized all over the country.
In 2004, the National Leading Group for Knowledge Engineering entrusted library society of china to hold the annual National Reading Month. In order to implement the knowledge project of advocating universal reading and building a reading society, library society of china will further stimulate the enthusiasm of universal reading and promote the construction of learning society, learning organization and learning family.
In 20 13, large-scale activities were held nationwide to let the public know about World Reading Day. In 2004, 24% of French people read 12 books, and more than 55% of them read 1 to 12 books. Judging from the crowd, everyone reads 1 1 book on average.