National Library of China

National Library of China

The National Library of China (Chinese中国 国家 图书馆/中国 国家 图书馆, Pinyin Zhōngguó guojia túshūguǎn, W.-G. Zhong Guo Guo Jia Tu Shu Guan, English National Library of China ) in road district Zizhuyuan ( Haidian District ) Beijing, China is the largest library in Asia and with a population of over 30 million bibliographic units, the seventh largest in the world. It has the world's largest Chinese literature inventory.

History

The forerunner of the Chinese National Library, the " Metropolitan Library ", was founded on 24 April 1909 by the Manchu government. It was formally opened only after the Xinhai Revolution, on August 27, 1912 (or October 7 ), ie in the year when the last of the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, to whose memory it was originally built abdicated, .

1916 the library received legal deposit. In July 1928, she was then temporarily in " Beijing National Library " ( Chinese, W.-G. Guo Beiping Li Tu Shu Guan ) renamed.

After the founding of the People's Republic was indeed consistently extended to the Chinese National Library, but her name was on " Beijing Library " (Chinese, Pinyin Běijīng túshūguǎn; German and Beijing Library ) shortened.

Only in December 1998, the State Council approved the name change to " National Library of China ".

In September 2009 it celebrated its centenary. Since November 2009, she participates in the " OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing service " part.

The library is organizationally subordinate to the Chinese Ministry of Culture.