Yancheng Library is a national first-class library, a provincial civilized library and a provincial social science popularization demonstration base. In 2009, it was jointly commended by Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Culture as an "advanced unit of national cultural system", and was successively commended as an "excellent organization award for national reading" and "advanced unit for national reading" by library society of china. Its predecessor can be traced back to the "Li Shuo Tao Ku in Yancheng County" in the seventeenth year of the Republic of China (AD 1928). 1983 was upgraded to Yancheng Library due to the withdrawal of county and the establishment of city. The first phase project 1987 No.26 Yulong East Road, 1990 was completed and opened for business; In 2002, the second phase of the project was expanded in situ and opened to the outside world after the overall transformation in 2006. On 20 10, a new municipal library was built on the west side of the municipal administrative center, which was completed and used on 20 1 1 in 2002. The original Yulong East Road Library has a building of more than 3,000 square meters, which is listed as Yancheng Children's Library, and the two libraries are borrowed and returned.

In order to better meet the development of modern information society and people's demand for information and knowledge, with the care and support of the municipal party committee and government, Yancheng Xinnan Library also broke ground at the beginning of 20 12. The new South Library under construction has a building area of 30,000 square meters and a collection of10.5 million books. It has the functions of education and training, report presentation, academic exchange, culture and leisure. The new museum will become another beautiful scenery of Yancheng with modern, multifunctional, perfect and advanced facilities and local characteristics.