[Eight departments jointly issued a notice to support physical bookstores to serve national reading] November 10th, in order to implement the "Regulations on the Promotion of National Reading" and implement the tasks of the 2026 government work report, recently, the Central Propaganda Department, the Central Ministry of Social Work, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage jointly issued the "Notice of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and others on supporting physical bookstores to serve national reading." The notice proposes to improve the supply quality of bookstores, implement the "Thousand Store Managers" growth training plan, enhance the bookstore's product selection capabilities, establish a public database of "bookstore speakers", promote Xinhua Bookstore to update store outlets, encourage the differentiated development of private bookstores, and rely on bookstores to carry out reading promotion voluntary service activities. It is necessary to cultivate characteristic reading spaces, create a number of landmark bookstores, special bookstores, themed bookstores and "small but beautiful" spaces, integrate them into urban renewal actions, and integrate them into complete communities and urban convenient living circles.