This goal was set out in the Plan to develop reading culture in the community for the period of 2021 - 2025, which has just been issued by the Ministry of Information and Communications.

The purpose of the Plan to develop reading culture in the community for the period of 2021-2025 is to promote and enhance the quality of activities that develop reading culture, in order to widely spread reading culture in the community. Inheriting the results achieved in the implementation of the Project for the period of 2017 - 2020, adding new contents suitable to the actual situation and development trends of the society; associating the development of reading culture with the implementation of the Planning on the network of publishing, printing and issuing establishments, the strategy for the development of the publishing, printing and issuing sectors in the period of 2021 - 2025 as well as promoting digitization in the publishing industry.

Regarding the implementation content, the Plan clearly states “focusing on perfecting institutions”, including the Planning on development of the network of the press, radio broadcast, television, electronic information, publishing establishments, regional planning, and provincial planning and then submitting to the Government for signing and promulgating in 2021; amending the Law on Publishing 2012 and developing execution guiding documents (implementation time 2022 - 2024).

Improving the quality of publishing activities: Develop and organize the implementation of the National Book Program Project to submit to the Government for signing and promulgating in the period 2021-2025; The Scheme to develop a publication distribution network on the infrastructure of the postal point system of the Vietnam Post Corporation signed and promulgated by the Ministry of Information and Communications (implementation time in 2022); Publication support fund in the form of socialization; Project on digitization in the publishing, printing and distribution industries signed and promulgated by the Ministry of Information and Communications (implemented in 2021); Social network connecting readers, publishers and authors (to be implemented in 2023).

In addition, promoting propaganda, popularization, and international cooperation in publishing, printing, and issuing activities: Developing a master plan for book promotion in the period of 2021 - 2025; Project on promoting publishing activities on newspapers and broadcasts, developing reading culture; Organizing Vietnam’s Book and Reading Culture Day and Book Fair (both online and offline); Holding domestic and international Book exhibitions - Book fairs; Organizing the annual National Book Award; Communication and propaganda activities via mass media, grassroots information systems and cyberspace; Organizing Copyright Fair with Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asian countries in Vietnam, etc.

The above plan clearly states: The Department of Publication, Printing, and Distribution takes responsibility for presiding over and coordinating with relevant units to organize the implementation of tasks in the Plan. Agencies and units under the Ministry of Information and Communications that are assigned based on their functions, tasks and allocated contents in this Plan, have to actively organize the implementation to ensure progress as well as quality and send annual reports on implementation results to the Department of Publication, Printing and Distribution to summarize and submit to the Ministry's leaders to report to the Prime Minister.