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China to Develop Digital Library

The State Development Planning Commission (SDPC) has recently approved the China Digital Library Project as a major development program in the next five years, an official with the Ministry of Culture told the press in Beijing Tuesday.

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According to the ministry official Chen Qilin, the SDPC has decided that China will continue to build a number of major cultural facilities. Among them are the national grand theater and the digital library.

Vice Premier Li Lanqing said that to develop a digital library is to effectively use and share information resources to the benefit of society.

The project of digital library, including that of the second- phase construction of the National Library of China, will take five years and 1.142 billion yuan (137.59 million U.S. dollars).

The library, a national key sci-tech development project, passed an experts assessment May 23, 2001. They believe the project is up to world standards.

The technology assessment commission headed by Dr. Zhang Bo, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, examined the trial library and decided that it will provide fundamental and essential technological conditions for building China's large-scale digital library.

Chinese are able to realize the dream of obtaining information at home today thanks to the digital library.

China to Invest 1 Billion Yuan for Digital Library Construction

A feasible study has been under way of a national digital library project approved by the State Council, China's cabinet. It is estimated that the investment will exceed 1 billion yuan, said Zhang Yanbo, vice curator of China National Library .

As China's key information infrastructure construction project, the national digital library has been listed as a key project in China's "10th Five-year Plan". Zhang said that the digital library is estimated to occupy an area of 70,000 square meters, after establishment, the total area of the National Library will reach 240,000 square meters, on a scale to top world three. Full Story

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