National organization of the Opening Ceremony of Vietnam Book and Reading Culture Day 2025

Accordingly, the 4th Vietnam Book and Reading Culture Day in 2025 is expected to take place from April 19 to April 21 at Cong Truong Cong Xa Paris Street (from Nguyen Du to Le Duan), Ho Chi Minh City Book Street (Nguyen Van Binh Street, District 1) and simultaneously held in Thu Duc City and 21 districts in the city with the message: "Reading Culture - Connecting the community", "With books, entering the era of national growth", "Reading books, enriching knowledge, nurturing aspirations, promoting innovation and creativity".

Vietnam Book and Reading Culture Day 2025 in Ho Chi Minh City is part of a series of events in the city to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification Day (April 30, 1975 - April 30, 2025).

According to information from the City Department of Culture and Sports, Vietnam Book and Reading Culture Day 2025 will have some highlights such as: The Department of Culture and Sports in coordination with the Department of Publishing, Printing and Distribution (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) will organize a national opening ceremony in the city; display and introduce versions of the work Duong Kach Menh and newly published and reprinted books to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification.

In addition, during the 3 days of activities, at the Paris Commune Square stage and Ho Chi Minh City Book Street, there will be 18 exchange and book introduction programs. In which, the Department of Culture and Sports will preside over and coordinate with the city's publishing houses and book distributors to organize exchange programs and introduce newly published books to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification Day.

Specifically, some typical programs will take place such as: Exchange program of the book series "Saigon-Ho Chi Minh City Heritage" and French-Indochinese Architecture - Traces of "Saigon-Pearl of the Far East"; exchange program, book launch "Reading the history of Saigon-Ho Chi Minh City in one breath"; exchange program to launch the book "From Ben Hai River to Independence Palace"; exchange program to launch the book "100 years of Tan Son Nhat Airport" ...

Young people visit book stalls at the 3rd Vietnam Book and Reading Culture Day in Ho Chi Minh City. (Photo: Manh Hao)

Within the framework of the event, the Organizing Committee will display and exhibit documents and publications on the theme "Ho Chi Minh Campaign - Symbol of revolutionary heroism" and the postage stamp set "Historical Ho Chi Minh Campaign on Vietnamese and world postage stamps".

In addition to the above outstanding activities, Vietnam Book and Reading Culture Day 2025 also has book, cinema and music spaces; organizes the introduction of art and music activities adapted from books; organizes book spaces and children's experience areas; introduces good models and solutions on digital transformation applications associated with the publishing industry such as: digital library system (talking book library), tools to support review and editing for the publishing industry by voice...

The organizers also continue to organize online sales sessions on e-commerce platforms, thereby innovating business methods, opening up many opportunities to promote the book market on digital platforms, bringing about increasingly clear changes in the stages of publishing, communication, and distribution.

In particular, the highlight in the series of activities responding to the 4th Vietnam Book and Reading Culture Day in the city is that the Department of Culture and Sports coordinated with the People's Committee of District 7 and the People's Committee of Binh Tan District to organize the groundbreaking ceremony and the inauguration ceremony of the book streets.

These are typical emulation works of the city's publishing industry to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification Day.

Source: https://nhandan.vn/to-chuc-cap-quoc-gia-le-khai-mac-ngay-sach-va-van-hoa-doc-viet-nam-2025-post871468.html