Photo taken on April 23, 2021 shows a local resident reading a book at a "Red" Bookstore in Zunyi, Southwest China's Guizhou province. [Photo/Xinhua]
Read to mark landmark
This year marks the centennial of the founding of the CPC. Strong foot traffic has been observed in the bookstore since the beginning of the year, said manager Pan Min, who added that 70 percent of them were tourists coming to Jinggangshan.
Sales have climbed both on year and on month according to Pan, in line with industrial forecasts in a market report released in Beijing in late March.
Traditionally a season of thin trading, the first four months of this year logged an increase of nearly 180 percent in sales compared with the same period in 2019, the year before the outbreak of COVID-19, said Pan.
Best-sellers included collected works of Chairman Mao, catalog records of the Jinggangshan revolutionary base area and an oral history of the struggles in the region, according to the manager.
