According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s figure, a Vietnamese person just read less than a book a year in a library ( just 0.8 book a year).
The number of book distributed to a library is less than a book a person, too ( just 0.35 book a person). Vietnam’s National Library has around 30,000 regular readers who register at the library while libraries in rural districts have around 1,000-2,000 readers.
The number of readers in countryside communes is 100-5000. Some rural areas and mountainous regions even don’t have a library.
Therefore, the ministry sent its document to its sub-departments asking to enhance educating about the importance of newspapers and books.
Sub-departments are asked to distribute more newspapers and books to cultural houses and implement lifetime studying activities in libraries, museums, cultural houses and clubs.
