Abstract:With the advance of the era of urbanization and the gradually forming of lifelong learning society, it becomes a new kind of social turn and trend to read. While city reading continuously initiates strong new demand, the supply side of reading materials has the corresponding change and revision. High progress of the society, deep economic power, developed culture, science and technology and so on provide virtuous guarantee for city reading. In order to further improve the pertinence and effectiveness of the city reading, more professionals should be advocated and encouraged to write for general public and to provide a lot of reading materials with excellent quality and to make ease project in reading field. In this regard, some experts and scholars in the scientific research institutes have done a lot. They transfer the frontier information or novel knowledge to the ordinary readers, realizing the social value of scientific research and knowledge production. Professor Cheng Suiying, a special invited lecturer of CCTV1 and the author of the new book “Cheng Suiying Talking about Six Famous Ancient Capitals”, is such a good example.