Library of Hainan Province

The Hainan Province Library is one of the country’s youngest public libraries. It was opened on February 2, 2007, as part of a cultural complex that includes the Hainan Province Museum and the Performing Arts Center.

The library consists of several modern buildings, united by a system of transitions into a single whole. The library’s repositories contain an incredible number of printed publications – more than 480 million. Here and Chinese literature, and world classics, periodicals, manuscripts and much more. The library has special halls for the visually impaired, for children, lecture and exhibition halls and a comfortable reading room for 1700 visitors, equipped with two hundred computers.

Much attention is paid to the development of modern methods of serving readers. Today the library has a significant collection of electronic books and magazines. Multiple video resources are available. The book collection is constantly replenished both with state aid and thanks to a large number of donors. The library hosts photo exhibitions, children's holidays, meetings of schoolchildren with writers and book fairs.