HCM City: New pedestrian-only book street to be opened
HCM City will open a new pedestrian-only book street on Nguyen Dong Chi street in District 7 in October, offering a series of activities promoting reading culture for more than 300,000 residents.
The HCM City pedestrian-only Book Street at Nguyen Van Binh Street in District 1 is a popular destination for local and foreign visitors. (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City will open a new pedestrian-only bookstreet on Nguyen Dong Chi street in District 7 in October, offering a series ofactivities promoting reading culture for more than 300,000 residents in Districts 7, 2 and 8.
The 220-metre venue will be set up with 20 stalls managed by the country’sleading publishers, distributors and organisations, such as the HCM CityGeneral Publishing House, Tre Publishing House, Nha Nam, First News, and theHCM City General Science Library.
The stalls will introduce books and magazines from domestic and foreignpublishers, along with audio and visual products.
There will be a mobile library to provide readers and children a placeto relax and enjoy their favourite books, and coffee shops as well.
A stage will be built to serve for talk shows, book introductions and artperformances.
Exhibitions, book auctions and book exchanges will be organised regularly onthe street.
Bui Thi Ngoc Hieu, Vice Chairwoman of the District 7 People’s Committee, saidthe authorities hope to turn the new book street in District 7 into a newattraction for local people and foreigners.
It is the second pedestrian book street in HCM City together with Nguyen Van Binhstreet in District 1.
Opening in January in 2016, Nguyen Van Binh Book Street has hosted numerousevents to promote reading by the city’s residents, such as Vietnamese Book Day,European Literature Day, a children’s festival, and photo and book exhibitionson HCM City and its people.
In the first six months of this year, the venue welcomed over 1.2 million localand foreign visitors. Nearly 300,000 books were sold, earning 19.7 billion VND(840,000 USD), an increase of 27 percent compared to the same period of lastyear.-VNA
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The HCM City pedestrian-only Book Street at Nguyen Van Binh Street in District 1 is a popular destination for local and foreign visitors. (Photo: VNA) 
