With the sensation brought by the radio column of "The Rise of a Great Power" of the Central People's Radio, the sales of two magazines, "Reading" and "Reader", have exploded. The previous issues of "The Rise of a Great Power" were also in high demand, and they were nowhere to be found in the reading rooms of schools, libraries, and factory cooperatives.

That's right, it's to copy the book, borrow the magazine serialized with "The Rise of the Great Power", and then copy it all in the book, just like the children's lyric books and excerpts, which are full of the copyist's love and attachment to Govin and the rise of the great powers.

And Govin also had a good reputation in Beijing for a while, and all the invitations that could be shirked had been shirked, despite this, there were still many university speeches and invitations such as pen meetings organized by some old-timers that he needed to attend one after another, and for a while Govin's itinerary became busy.

Today, however, Gowen resigned from a lecture on the rise of great powers, and went to Beijing's largest Xinhua bookstore with Uncle Long Shao of Joint Bookstore.

Today is the day of the interview for the first series of books in the Future series of Joint Publishing Co., Ltd., and as one of the authors, Govin naturally wants to come to the bookstore to see the sales.

Speaking of which, this is the first time that Govin has not entered a bookstore in Beijing since he came to Beijing.

Before the reform and opening up, Beijing's bookstores were basically government-run Xinhua bookstores. This main channel controlled the ordering and distribution of books, which was the greatest spiritual food for the people's lives at that time, and it was unique in its collection, from the writings of leading figures to all kinds of cultural, scientific, technological, educational, and military works, as well as comic books, New Year paintings, photographs, portraits of leading figures, teaching materials, and so on. There is no semicolon.

In 1979, with the spring breeze of ideological emancipation. The publication of books of all kinds began to show a booming trend. Xinhua bookstores alone can no longer meet the needs of the market, so a large number of private bookstores came into being, most of the owners of these bookstores are cultural people, retired teachers, retired bookstore workers, compared with the general Xinhua bookstore, this kind of bookstore will operate more complete and more books in a certain aspect, and the service is more humane.

However, because the publishing house of the book series is the People's Publishing House, and it is also a government-run institution, the relationship between the two sides has always been very close. Xinhua Bookstore deserves to be the main seller. Moreover, to investigate the sales number of the book series, it is only in Xinhua Bookstore that it can be more accurate and representative.

Wangfujing Xinhua Bookstore at No. 14 Wangfujing Street was established before the founding of the People's Republic of China, and was praised as "the first store of the Republic" by people from all walks of life because of its early establishment, large scale, complete variety and good service. In the fifties, the Wangfujing Xinhua Bookstore was expanded for the first time, occupying four floors. In the seventies, the bookstore underwent its second expansion, and the expanded book building had a total construction area of 6,300 square meters and a business area of 3,600 square meters, making it the largest book city in Asia at this time.

At the main entrance of Wangfujing Bookstore, a bright banner hung high, with a few big words written on it: "Walden, the first translation of Walden, the author of "The Rise of Great Powers", is on the market!" ”。

It's an exaggerated feeling.

Seeing the stunned look on Gowen's face. Long Shao smiled, "That's right. I was a little surprised when I saw it for the first time, but who made you the hottest! If you want to start this first shot, you really have to borrow your fame! ”

Govin smiled bitterly, he was shocked that it was strange that there were such advertisements in this era, and as for whether he borrowed his own fame or not, it didn't matter to him.

"Let's go, let's go in and have a look."

Entering the Wangfujing Bookstore, Govin was shocked by what he saw.

In the money society of later generations, everyone seemed to be very anxious, and no matter what they did, they seemed to be very impetuous in their eagerness for quick success, and the same was true for reading.

Before crossing the country, Govin had read a group of numbers jù, saying that Chinese people read less than five books a year, which is also counting the requirement for students to read 4 million words of extracurricular books stipulated in the nine-year compulsory education language curriculum standards, and if the number of students reading is removed, then the amount of books read by Chinese per person per year is even less than one. This number is frighteningly low compared to the rest of the world: the most read Jews in the world read 64 books per person a year, the United States nearly 50, Japan 40, South Korea 11, France 20, Israel 60......

One might counter that I read an hour or two of web novels every day.

Please, can a fast-food book like an online novel be called reading?

True reading requires readers to understand and digest the content of books after reading, and to give readers the opportunity to make rational judgments and rational thinking. And this kind of reading of online novels can only be said to be reading, just a pastime, after reading is to finish reading, sleeping with your head covered, and leaving almost nothing.

In later generations, there were many readers, but few readers.

In later generations, impetuousness is affecting everyone, and there are very few people who can really settle down and read.

At one point, Govin thought he could no longer see the beautiful imprint of quietly reading a good book with a cup of tea in hand, because such a scene seemed to have only happened in the long gone industrial age.

But he sees it now.

It was in this eighties, still full of idealism and still rustic but enthusiastic.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Govin finally understood why China has become a world power in just a few decades, making countless countries full of fear and vigilance about China.

In front of you-

Every bookshelf was full of people, even the most obscure philosophical counters.

Everyone's face is full of piety, which is the thirst and yearning for knowledge.

Everyone carefully holds a book in their hands, clean, rough, white, and old......

In front of each cash register, there was a long queue of coarse coats, tunics, khaki military uniforms, fur coats......

A good book can change a person's life.

The history of a person's spiritual development is essentially the history of a person's reading; The spiritual realm of a nation depends to a great extent on the reading level of the whole nation.

Only by advocating reading can the development of the nation maintain the vitality of life, and the reading level of the people is related to the future of a country and the rise and fall of a nation.

It is this generation of people who are diligently seeking and waiting for milk, full of passion and yearning for knowledge and culture, that has created the glory of China in later generations!

It's a pity that when this generation slowly withdraws from the stage of history, can the future generations still shoulder the heavy responsibility on their shoulders and continue to move forward?

Govin didn't know.

What he knew was-

He will do his best to fight for the prosperity of the motherland and the prosperity of the people all his life. (To be continued.) )

ps: The matter has been done, and it will be back to normal tomorrow.