Beijing Library is the national library of China and one of the five largest libraries in the world, with more than 10 million books. This modern new library was built at 1988, located on the north side of Zizhuyuan in the western suburb west of the former site of Beijing Library. This is the largest library with the largest collection of books in China and Asia at present, and it is also one of the world-famous large libraries.

Beijing Library, formerly known as Shi Jing Library, was established on April 24th of the first year of Qing Dynasty (1909) at the invitation of the Academic Department of Qing Government. It is mainly used to collect rare books and other ancient books. The library is located in Guanghua Temple in Shichahai (Yaer Hutong, gulou west). 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. 1928 changed its name to National Beiping Library, and moved its site to Juren Hall in Zhonghai. 193 1 year, a new Palace Museum was built on the west side of Beihai Park. Due to the collection of Sikuquanshu in Wenjinge, the street in front of the museum was named Jinjie. The environment here is beautiful. It is a famous Imperial Palace in Ming Dynasty, and it is a farewell house for the royal family in the late Ming Dynasty. In the Qing dynasty, the palace was abandoned and a library was built, with an area of only 8,000 square meters. 1929 193 1 year reconstruction. 1949 was renamed Beijing Library. At the end of 1970s, the library expanded to more than 50,000 square meters, and the old collection of Beijing Library 1 1, 000,000 volumes was built on the west side of the south gate of Beihai. 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.

Although the history of Beijing Library is only over 80 years, its collection base can be traced back. Go back 700 years. At the beginning of its construction, it inherited some treasures of Jixi Pavilion of the Southern Song Dynasty Royal Library and Wen Yuan Pavilion of the Ming Dynasty Royal Library, and based on imperial academy of the Qing Dynasty and imperial academy of Xue Nan, it collected a large number of rare books, series of books, local documents and other precious documents, about 6,543,800 copies. The Hanlin Academy now has Yongle Dadian and Dunhuang Scriptures. Its collection of Siku Quanshu is the only complete set in Chinese mainland. There are 260,000 rare books of ancient books and nearly 2 million ordinary thread-bound books. In order to preserve and utilize the history and culture left over by thousands of years and make it play a greater role, Beijing Library has restored a large number of damaged ancient books. Beijing Library also attaches great importance to collecting revolutionary historical documents and manuscripts of many famous writers and scholars. Since 19 16, Beijing Library has always been a collection of domestic publications, ensuring that the main official publications in China normally come from Beijing Library. The museum also actively and emphatically collects some foreign publications; At present, there are more than 100 languages in Tibet, which reflect the political, economic and scientific development of countries around the world from different angles and provide necessary information for studying the situation of countries around the world. For a long time, Beijing Library has made unremitting efforts in the collection, processing and preservation of documents, forming a collection system with China characteristics.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it developed rapidly. The collection of books increased from 1.949 to1.4000 in 1.979, but the stack area only increased five times. 1987 10 A new building was built in the north of Zizhuyuan, Shiqiao Road, Haidian District. It is a group of buildings surrounded by multi-storey buildings. The main building has sixteen floors above ground and three floors underground. There are symmetrical courtyards in the building, and the roof is a classical form of China. The whole library covers an area of 70,000 square meters, with a building area of 6,543,800+7,000 square meters, including a library area of 60,000 square meters and a collection of more than 20 million books. There are more than 30 reading rooms and more than 3,000 seats. There are also dozens of small laboratories with 6 16 people, modern management equipment, exhibition halls and academic lecture halls. All this makes the old Beijing library young. In order to protect precious books, all kinds of rare books in the library have been microfilmed for readers to read. In the audiovisual room, people can see audiovisual materials from all over the world. Advanced equipment and complete functions. The original library on Jinwen Street was renamed as a branch library. By the end of 1990, there were nearly160,000 books. It is the largest library with the largest collection of books in China and one of the best public libraries in the world.