Countryside libraries capture public imagination in China

A room in a farmer’s home was made into the “farmers’ book house” with money from the government. The authorities also pay for all the publications.
By the end of the year, 60,000 such libraries will be built and farmers nationwide will be able to enrich themselves with books paid for by the government, Li Dongdong, deputy director of the General Administration of Press and Publications (GAPP), told China Daily on the sidelines of yesterday’s CPPCC session. Each library will hold no less than 1,500 books, 30 newspapers and magazines, as well as 100 digital sound or video products, Li said. The ambitious blueprint of the GAPP targets for 20,000 libraries to be built by the end of 2010, and each of China’s 640,000 villages will have such a “house” by 2015.

March 13, 2008 by Uncategorized 0

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