There are 32 public libraries, 33 cultural centers, 40,200 cultural stations and 575,400 village-level comprehensive cultural service centers in China. All public libraries, cultural centers, art galleries and 965,438+0% museums are open free of charge.

China has realized the free opening of all public libraries, cultural centers, art galleries, comprehensive cultural stations and most museums. In 20021year, the actual number of licensed readers in public libraries nationwide reached1030,000, mass cultural institutions served more than 800 million people, and national museums held 36,000 exhibitions.

Educational activities were carried out for 320,000 times, with nearly 800 million visits to related websites and networks, with 4 1 100 million visits.

The development history of the library;

As early as 3000 BC, all kinds of records were engraved on the clay tablets in the temple of Babylon. The earliest collection places are the collections of Greek temples and the collections attached to the Greek Philosophy Institute.

The earliest library, according to the excavation results of archaeologists, we know that the earliest library in the world is Nineveh Library in Mesopotamia Plain, which is the best preserved, largest and most complete library among the ancient civilization sites that have been excavated today.

It was more than 400 years earlier than the famous Alexandria Library in Egypt, and because of the particularity of mud-printed books, it was not destroyed by the war like Alexandria Library, and most of them were preserved.