{"id":330,"date":"2006-03-22T12:20:21","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T04:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/only-5-percent-in-china-have-habit-of-reading-books-report\/"},"modified":"2018-08-22T12:03:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T04:03:03","slug":"only-5-percent-in-china-have-habit-of-reading-books-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/only-5-percent-in-china-have-habit-of-reading-books-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 5 percent in China have ‘habit of reading books’: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some in China have proclaimed that the country has a “reading crisis<\/a>” (yuèdú wēijī<\/span> \/ 阅读危机<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Only 5 percent of the 1.3 billion Chinese population has a habit of reading books, according to a report released by the China Publishing Research Institute in 2005.<\/p>\n

Xi [Shu, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and a board chairman of a publishing company based in Beijing,] argued frequent use of the Internet can lead to people’s easy satisfaction with a smattering of knowledge without deep thinking.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I haven’t been able to find the original of the 2005 report, so I don’t know how “habit” is defined, or even “books.” (What percent of those with the “habit,” for example, read primarily comic books<\/a>?) And are students excluded? Regardless, it doesn’t sound good. <\/p>\n

sources: <\/p>\n