The film took three years to make and has been revised and polished several times.The first three episodes used actors from multiple countries to participate in recreating the great stories in the history of Eastern and Western civilizations where the works of civilization giants formed or influenced history. At the same time, a large number of animations were used to strive to vividly express the profound connection between reading and the history of civilization.

The fourth episode reveals the connection between the height of life and reading through the Qian Liu family, Weng Tonghe family, Pu Songling legend, etc. The ancestral family precepts of reading have enlightenment value.The fifth episode shows the practical history of national reading in China and its profound cultural impact on society.

Reading can change the destiny of an individual and even more, the destiny of a nation.An important indicator of a country's prosperity is the cultural quality of its citizens.“Reading by all” not only requires high-level system design and administrative power to promote it, but also deeply calls for the full participation of hundreds of millions of people at the grassroots level.

Behind the prosperity of a nation, there must be perseverance“ THE POWER OF READING”.

《THE POWER OF READING》 is a historical and cultural documentary with Xia Jun as the chief editor and director. It has 5 episodes and was first broadcast on the CCTV Documentary Channel in 2017.The five-episode TV documentary - THE POWER OF READING - spans thousands of years and thousands of miles of land and sea, with dozens of scholars participating in interviews and speeches, wonderfully presenting the epic landscape of civilization created by books.