This library has seven floors, which can basically meet the vast majority of book purchasing needs. It not only occupies a large area, but also is the bookstore with the largest flow of people in Shanghai.
Shanghai Book City is a chain brand of book sales under Shanghai Xinhua Media Co., Ltd., which is one of the important cultural landmarks in Shanghai and listed as one of the major practical projects of Shanghai Municipal People's Government 1998.
Shanghai Book City faces Nanjing East Road Pedestrian Street in the north, the world-famous Bund in the east, Yan 'an East Road Elevated in the south, Shanghai Museum and Shanghai Grand Theatre in the west.
Book City deals in all kinds of books, audio-visual products and electronic publications of more than 800 publishing houses nationwide, with 6,543,800 varieties. Among them, the first floor deals with life and leisure books and special books, the second floor deals with Chinese and foreign literature books and audio-visual products, the third floor deals with cultural and educational books and children's world, the fourth floor deals with social science books, the fifth floor deals with science and technology books, and the sixth floor deals with art books, Hong Kong and Taiwan editions and original foreign languages.