China News Service, November 11 (Reporter Sudan) The "Science of Books in China·A Beautiful Life" National Reading Photography Exhibition opened on the 10th at the China Millennium Monument in Beijing.
Xie Hailong, one of the judges of this year's photography exhibition and the author of the famous photo Hope Project "Big Eyes", attended the opening ceremony.
Xie Hailong has been paying attention to the education situation in impoverished areas since the 1980s, and he has a deep feeling that studying changes fate.
His photo "Big Eye", a symbol of the Hope Project, is well-known to the Chinese and even the world, and it has also promoted the change of the destiny of millions of children in impoverished areas.
The story he witnessed fits the theme of this exhibition "Scented China·A Beautiful Life".
The audience visits the exhibition.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Sudan
"There is no book in life, it is like there is no sunshine; there is no book in wisdom, as if a bird has no wings." Xie Hailong quoted Shakespeare's famous line to praise the beauty of reading.
He said that reading can bring self-confidence to individuals and hope to the nation; from the exhibition, one can feel that people enjoy reading and the current situation of national reading activities flourishing all over the country.
A poster made from the exhibited photos.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Sudan
Xie Hailong also pointed out the reading dilemma people face in the current social media era.
He said that now is the age of reading pictures, and people's time seems to be particularly precious. "Reading newspapers and reading books are all swept away, and I can't get down to it." As a photographer, Xie Hailong revealed without mercy." Family shame".
"Thousands of photographers are keen to travel thousands of miles with cameras worth tens of thousands of dollars, but they neglect to read thousands of books." He mentioned the strange phenomenon in the current photography industry, "There is no time to sit down and read, but Everyone wants to publish a book." He hopes that everyone can settle down to read, learn from the knowledge and experience summarized by others, and truly "read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles."
The audience visits the exhibition.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Sudan
This exhibition is sponsored by the Media Supervision Bureau of the Central Propaganda Department and undertaken by the China Photographic News Agency. More than 100 works (groups) selected from more than 20,000 photos (groups) are on display.
The reporter saw in the exhibition hall that in these photos, there were mothers carrying their babies in the library, children selling vegetables on the roadside but not forgetting to read, and old men who went to adult schools to actively learn technology.
Their love of reading is moving.
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