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The Hong Kong Education City (HKedCity) has launched the 'Happy Reading in the City: Education Community' programme, aimed at encouraging students to read more, especially during the summer holidays.

The project aims to help youths develop good reading habits.

More than  2,000 primary and secondary students attended the programme's opening ceremony last Friday, where they read aloud a 'reading contract' to show their determination to read more.

HKedCity chief executive Jacqueline Cheng Ming-fung reminded parents to encourage their children to choose books they like.

She said: 'If  parents push their kids to read books that they don't like, reading will become a burden.'

Ms Cheng said, according to a survey conducted by HKedCity last year, the favourite writer among young people in Hong Kong is Denmark's  Hans Christian Andersen, while their favourite book is  the Harry Potter series.

April is a special month for book lovers.

In 1995, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation  designated April 23 as the World Book Day  because many great authors were born or died on that day.

For example, the Bard - William Shakespeare - died on April 23, 1616.

For more details about the HKedCity reading programme, visit www.hkreadingcity.net/project/wbd



Programme aims to encourage summer reading