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2.2 Raising development quality and efficiency

National quality includes basic situation and level in national health, cultural knowledge, political
consciousness, moral thought and so on (Luo, 1993), and is an important factor of comprehensive
national strength. One of the basic characteristics of the developmental environment of our
country during the 13th Five-Year period is that people’s cultural quality and the degree of social
civilization need to be improved. The new goals of building a moderately prosperous society in
all respects also mention that national quality and the degree of social civilization are significantly
improved. Chinese Dream and socialist core values are deeply rooted among the people, patriotism,
collectivism and socialism are widely spread, social fashion of good faith and cooperation is
stronger, the ideological and ethical standards, scientific and cultural quality and health quality
improve significantly, legal consciousness of all society increases.
Since the reform and opening up 30 years ago, the national quality of our country has become
polarized, complex and unbalanced (Chen, 2012). As important public cultural institutions and
social education institutions, libraries should play a key role in the national quality education.
Educating people with books is the value of libraries and libraries should play a unique role in
the selection and evaluation of knowledge (Liu & Zhou, 2012). The abundant library collection
provides the material foundation for education. Through the processing and organization of
human knowledge, the arrangement of literatures, scientific and effective reference service,
recommendation service, subject service and so on, libraries fulfill the diversified demands of the
users, help people grasp the methods and means of information and data acquirement, and enhance
national information literacy and scientific literacy. Libraries should take the cultivation of socialist
qualified citizens as one of the missions, and take the advantage of authority centers, develop into
places of public education, lifelong education, and public learning centers of the community.

2.3 Promoting cultural development

In order to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects, the public cultural service system
should be basically completed. Culture is the lifeblood of a nation, and it gives the people a sense
of belonging. In recent years, China’s cultural industry develops rapidly. Until the end of 2014,
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there were 3,117 public libraries, 56,071 employees, building area of 12.316 million m , 790.92
million book collections, 506.74 million electronic book collections, 0.8555 million seats in the
reading room, 0.1986 million computers, 0.1216 million electronic reading terminals, public
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library construction area of 90 m per hundred people, 0.58 copies of the book collection per capita,
1.24 Yuan of book purchasing fee per capita (Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of
China, 2015). In order to improve the ability of public cultural services, to meet the basic cultural
needs of urban and rural residents, since the beginning of this century, our government invested in