《中华人民共和国公共文化服务保障法》已于2016年12月25日由第十二届全国人大常委会第二十五次会议通过,决定于2017年3月1日开始实施。该法规定了公共文化服务的设施和管理、公共文化服务的提供、保障措施和法律责任等,并明确把阅读服务、书报提供等作为公共文化服务的重要内容。这是我国人民文化生活中的一件大事,必将对保障我国国民的阅读权利、促进我国全民阅读活动的深入开展、提高全民族的科学文化素质产生深远的影响。这也是建国六十多年来依据《中华人民共和国宪法》首次对公共文化服务(包括阅读服 The Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Protection of Public Cultural Services was passed by the Twenty-fifth Meeting of the Twelfth NPC on December 25, 2016 and is scheduled to come into effect on March 1, 2017. This Law stipulates the facilities and management of public cultural services, the provision of public cultural services, safeguards and legal responsibilities, and clearly defines reading services and provision of books and newspapers as an important part of public cultural services. This is a major event in the cultural life of our country and will surely have a profound and far-reaching impact on ensuring the read rights of our nationals, promoting the thorough reading of our nation’s reading activities and raising the scientific and cultural qualities of the entire nation. This is also the first time since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in accordance with the “Constitution of the People’s Republic of China” for public cultural services (including reading clothes