Reading on rise for CPC members

A resident is absorbed in reading at the Yayuncun Books Building in Beijing on Thursday, which was World Book Day.[FENG YONGBIN/CHINA DAILY]

Among nearly 5,000 participants in a poll on cpc.people.com.cn last year, 79 percent of the polled Party members said they like reading, while 28 percent admitted reading less than five hours per week.

Compared with a survey by People's Tribune magazine in 2009, Party members are doing more reading. Half of the participants in the 2014 survey said they read 10 books or more in a year, a growth of more than 10 percentage points over 2009.

Moreover, Party members experience less disruption of their reading by social activities of late, as the Party has advocated a thrifty lifestyle and cracks down on extravagance and abuse of public funds.

In the 2009 survey, 22 percent of Party members polled said they were too busy attending social activities to read, while only 13 percent in the 2014 survey blamed social activities for holding them back.

"Besides participating in a reading club, I spend about eight hours every day reading," said Xu Bo, director of Jiangsu Local Taxation Bureau.

To help Party members develop a habit of reading, the Work Committee of the Jiangsu Party Committee organized after-work reading clubs, where participants engage in group discussions.

The Work Committee conducted a survey of more than 3,200 Party members in the province last year, and 52 percent of those polled welcomed such events.

"I spend more time on reading than before, about 14 hours a week now, " said Xu Shipei, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Commission of Economy and Information Technology. "What I learn from reading has helped me improve my work."

Wang Yanfei contributed to this story.

Contact the writer at xujingxi@chinadaily.com.cn

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