At night, the National Library, located in Zhongguancun South Street, Beijing, was quiet. This is one of the busiest public cultural institutions in China, with 5427 reading seats. In the first four years of the 13th five year plan, it received nearly 5.68 million readers and borrowed more than 25.11 million copies of literature. "I have been reading books here for many years. I want to find everything." Feedback from an old reader of the National Library. Tianjin, a city not far from the capital, also has a strong library construction and maintenance. The newly-built Binhai New Area Library has a construction area of about 33700 square meters and more than 2000 reading seats. A huge reading hall with a 29.6-meter-high floor and surrounded by 34 white steps in the museum has a strong sense of science and technology and beauty, attracting millions of local citizens to "punch in" every year. In order to make reading services not only cover cities, but also extend to districts, counties, streets and even villages, in recent years, China has made great efforts to implement the "general branch library system" - Taking the county as the basic unit and focusing on the countryside, exploring the unified purchase, cataloging, distribution, borrowing and returning of literature resources in the county by county-level libraries. At the same time, the "city study" and other new reading spaces that are convenient for readers to borrow are launched to expand the coverage and effectiveness of library resources. "In Wenzhou, we have 13 public libraries above the county level, 112 urban study rooms and 80 people's study rooms. Since the implementation of the general branch library system, the number of books borrowed has almost doubled. In 2021, the number of public library services was 16.6352 million, the number of documents lent out was 11.801 million, and the per capita number of documents lent out reached 1.22." Zhang Qilin, director of Wenzhou Library in Zhejiang Province, told reporters. In the eyes of local readers, there are also eight famous buses - they are the "mobile Book bus" of Wenzhou Library. Outside the blue carriage, there are five big words "auto library", carrying about 16000 books, and sending the borrowing service to communities, villages, schools and even mountains. "They have traveled 800000 kilometers, served 200000 readers and borrowed 354000 copies of literature. Every time I see children in remote areas laughing with special joy with books borrowed from the bus, I feel happy and feel that the seeds of reading are sown in their hearts." Zhang Qilin said. Wenzhou is only one of the cities that implement the general branch library system. As of October 2021, a total of 2636 counties in China have established the system of general and branch libraries. Hundreds of millions of books are circulated through lending outlets such as libraries at all levels, large and small, "urban study" and "people's study". The rapid development of the Internet has promoted the book borrowing service into thousands of households. In some cities, as long as you pay attention to the official account of the local public library, or scan the relevant QR code, you can successfully "place an order" on the mobile phone and borrow the books of the local library as easily as "order takeout". (Xinhua News Agency)