Let's children love reading - an effort of a migrant city

Child’s reading promotion is a complicated systematic project which involves a complete process from creation, publication, recommendation to marketing and procurement. The promotion involves participation by households, kindergartens, schools, communities, libraries and book stores and is affected by the reading atmosphere at the whole society. Public library, as an important part of child reading, plays its unique role and indispensable part in the whole process. This article, taking Shenzhen as an example, introduces the city’s unique environment in promoting child reading and its relevant institutions such as government agencies, book sellers, schools, kindergartens, libraries, media and the ways to promote child reading. It also introduces a child reading service network comprised of an independent children library, children libraries affiliated to city libraries，reading rooms at communities and villages, and book dispensers that scatter at terminals, public areas and busy streets.