Its predecessor was the Shi Jing Library, 1909, which was invited by the academic department of the Qing government on April 24th. After the Revolution of 1911, it was taken over by the Ministry of Education of Beijing Government and opened on August 27th, 2002. 19 12 officially received readers. Beijing Library was proposed and approved by Premier Zhou Enlai in March 1975. As a national key construction project,/kloc-0 laid the foundation stone in September, 1983 and was completed in July, 1987. Comrade Deng Xiaoping inscribed the name of Beijing Library. Comrade Wan Li cut the ribbon for the new Beijing Library. The new museum covers an area of 7. 42 hectares, with a construction area of 6.5438+0.4 million square meters. Including Jinwen Street Sub-branch, the building covers an area of 6,543,800+7,000 square meters. It can hold 20 million books. There are more than 30 reading rooms and more than 3000 reading seats, which can receive an average of 7800 readers every day.