China kicks off program to build village libraries

Anonymous Patron writes “english.eastday.com reports Although China is a nation of avid readers, with large crowds browsing almost every urban bookstore and a 100 million newspapers printed daily, China’s rural residents have long had a dearth of reading material.
That’s expected to soon change as the country plans to fund 200,000 village libraries to bring more of the written word to the country’s 900 million farmers, according to the State Press and Publication Administration of China.
By way of cpmparison, The ALA Says There are an estimated 117,664 libraries of all kinds in the United States today.”

July 27, 2006 by Uncategorized 2

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2 Responses

  1. GregS* says:
    July 28, 2006 at 7:54 pm

    That’s a lotta churches…
    all preaching that Communist China is good, Amen and pass the rice

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  2. mdoneil says:
    July 29, 2006 at 11:51 am

    Vans
    They still have those mobile execution vans don’t they?

    Any country that executes convicted criminals is uncivilized in my book.

    (see I said book, this is a library discussion)

    Yes I know the US has it, my rule still applies.

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