胡耀邦一生酷爱读书。在他60年不平凡的革命生涯中,无论是戎马倥偬的战争岁月,还是解放后的和平建设年代;无论是革命队伍中的一个“红小鬼”,抑或是肩负重任、日理万机的党的总书记,胡耀邦从不懈怠,始终充分利用一切可以利用的时间,手不释卷,阅读思考。曾长期担任中央宣传部部长的陆定一赞道:“胡耀邦读的书真不少,很有见解。他从红小鬼成了个大知识分子。” Hu Yaobang life-long love of reading. In his 60 years of extraordinary revolutionary career, both war years and years of war, or after the liberation of the peace building era; whether it is a “red devil” in the revolutionary ranks, or shoulder the task, the total of the party Secretary, Hu Yaobang never slack, and always take full advantage of all the available time, hands-on, reading and thinking. For a long time Lu Dingyi, minister of the Central Propaganda Department, praised: “There are a lot of books read by Hu Yaobang and he is very insightful, and he has become a big intellectual from the Red Boy.”