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Chinanews, Shanghai, March 21 - In the past 6 years, Chinese have read fewer and fewer books every year. Thus Zhu Yongxin, deputy mayor of Suzhou, and a memeber of the National Committee of the CPPCC, handed in another proposal for designating a "national reading day" at the session of the CPPCC National Committee held earlier this month, with the support of several famous Chinese writers, including Wang Anyi, Zhang Kangkang, Liang Xiaosheng and Zhao Lihong.
This was the fifth time for Zhu to hand in such a proposal, for he is really worried about the intellectual life of Chinese. In the previous survey on reading in China, only 5% of educated Chinese kept the habit of reading, and the number of readers in the country in 2005 dropped by 11.7% compared with 1999. Even those readers only read 4.5 books per capita in 2005, while the figure in the US was 50 that year. "A resident of former USSR averagely read no less than 55 books every year, and it is said that a Jewish Russian read more than 60," said Zhu. "Today's Chinese have little patience to read books, especially classics." Zhu believes the improper1 examination-oriented education should be blamed for the current situation, too, as most student care about nothing but how to pass examinations, and to them "excessive" reading apparently2 can do nothing to help them along that line. "I believe observing of 'national reading day' will help cultivate in people the habit of reading books, " concluded Zhu.
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