A recently released     1    (nation) survey on reading among Chinese people,     2     was conducted by the Chinese Academy of Press and Publication (CAPP), has shown     3     steady rise in reading as a habit in the country.

Over 1.48 million     4    (sample) were collected for the survey from 165 cities nationwide, carried out via the forms of online and telephone surveys.

An average adult would spend 23.13 minutes on average per day     5    (read) printed books in 2022 the survey showed.

Moreover, listening to audiobooks was another rising habit among Chinese readers,     6     35.5 percent of adults saying they were used to listening     7    (main) to audiobooks.

Public reading services continued to meet the needs of Chinese readers, as 78.2 percent of the people     8    (survey) were satisfied with the services of public libraries, and 72.5 percent were pleased with their experience at community or self-service libraries.

“In Hangzhou, for instance, reading venues, including public libraries, self-service libraries and rural reading rooms,     9    (cover) the whole city in the past several years,” said Mayor of Hangzhou Yao Gaoyuan on Sunday.

Reading on mobile phones also remained a habit among Chinese readers. According to the survey, 77.8 percent read on their phones last year, 0.4 percent     10    (high) than in 2021.

A man who was missing for 17 days after an earthquake in China’s Sichuan Province has been found alive, according to local media reports.

The 28-year-old hydropower station employee Gan Yu had stayed behind with his colleague Luo Yong after an earthquake hit Sichuan on Sept. 5,     1     killed 93 people and injured     2     (hundred).

Gan did first aid for his colleague and helped prevent flooding by releasing water from the dam (大坝). Both Gan and Luo then stayed in the station for over a day without food or mobile signal. They attempted     3     (leave)on Sept. 7, walking more than 12 miles. But Gan, who is short- sighted, lost his glasses and had much     4     (difficult)walking through the mountains. The pair     5     (eventual)decided to split up(分开), with Gan     6     (stay)there waiting for help and Luo going off to find assistance. Rescuers found Luo 3 days later,     7     to their disappointment, when they returned to the place where he had left Gan, he was no longer there.

However, Gan was discovered by     8     local farmer, who heard Gan’s faint cries and     9     (spot)him lying injured under some trees. He     10     (fly)to a nearby hospital and doctors determined that he had several bone wounds.