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Communist Party of China, report on the Work of the Government, and policy documents of the
Third, the Fourth, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party
of China.
(3) Case study
Taking the National Library of China, some of the provincial libraries, sub-provincial libraries
(including the Sun Yat-sen Library of Guangdong Province, the Shanghai Library, the Capital
Library of China, the Shenzhen Library, the Hangzhou Public Library, etc.), city and county
libraries as examples, and mainly investigated their development scales, funding changes,
personnel changes, management and services, changes in number of visitors and so on, in recent
years, especially the library development models of the Library City in Shenzhen, Ubiquitous
Libraries in Shanghai, Tibet and Nan’ao County in eastern Guangdong.
(4) Comparative study
Investigation on library development in Occident could provide reference for healthy
development of public libraries in China. The main investigations included: Europe and America
library annual reports, including Public Libraries in the United States Survey: Fiscal Year 2012,
Materials Survey 2015, 2014 State of America’s Libraries Report, 2015 State of America’s
Libraries Report, LISU’s UK Statistics; investigation reports of international organizations,
including Fostering a Digitally Inclusive Aging Society in China: the Potential of Public
Libraries, Extracting Value from Chaos, Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community,
Perceptions of Library and Information Resources, How Americans Value Public Libraries in
Their Communities, Riding the Waves or Caught in the Tide? Insights from the IFLA Trend Report,
Making Cities Stronger: Public Library Contributions to Local Economic Development; for the
international libraries development models, the authors mainly investigated the social status and
public concern, number of patrons, policies, legal systems, funding, quality of librarians of Europe
and America libraries, focused on finding out their library services, including community libraries,
extended services, services for the people’s well-being, education services, enterprises services,
etc.

2 New expectations of moderately prosperous society

Comprehensive moderately prosperous society is the organic combination of a number of strategic
objectives, involving economic goals, industrial targets, contribution objects of consumption to
economic growth, household population urbanization goals, agricultural modernization targets,
people’s living standards and quality objectives, rural poor population escape poverty targets,
etc. (Yang, 2015). Comprehensive moderately prosperous society calls for the converging and
cooperation from all the forces of the society. Libraries play an important role in comprehensive
moderately prosperous society practice. However, there is still a big gap in librarianships
between current China and moderately prosperous society. Up to 2013, there were a total of