閱讀愛好者北京地鐵"快閃"倡導全民閱讀

A "Let Reading Occupy the Subway" campaign was launched in Beijing.

近日一項名爲"閱讀佔領地鐵"的活動在北京舉行。

At 7:00 am on Sunday morning, when most Beijing commuters were enjoying a lie-in before another busy week, around two dozen people waited quietly at the city's busy Xizhimen station, carrying their favorite took the train and began to read on their 30-minute-long trip.

上週日早上七點，很多北京的上班族還在香甜的睡夢中，爲即將開始的忙碌的下一週養精蓄銳的時候，有四五十名年輕人拿着自己喜愛的書，聚集在西直門地鐵站等待上車。他們上車後就坐下安靜地看書，30分鐘的車程之後隨即下車。

Wang Chong, one of the people behind the flash mob that widely circulated online, said its purpose was to call for people to read more books amid the decline of reading in China in recent years.

王衝是這次網上廣爲流傳的快閃族的倡導者之一，他表示，這次活動是針對近幾年中國國民閱讀數量下降的問題而開展的，旨在倡導全民閱讀。

Chinese people read an average 4.56 books, 65.03 newspapers and 6.07 magazines during 2014, according to a survey.

根據一項調查顯示，2014年國人平均閱讀4.56本書，65.03份報紙和6.07份雜誌。

"We named this performance art 'occupy the subway and read books' and we hope to inspire people to read books," Wang told the Global Times on Tuesday. "Many people seem to be occupied by various entertainments nowadays, including TV shows or browsing gossip news on their phones."

“我們把這次快閃行動命名爲'讓閱讀佔領地鐵'，希望激勵人們多讀書，”週二王衝告訴環球時報，“現在越來越多的人把時間都耗費在玩手機，關注各種娛樂八卦消息上。”