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                                              transformation toward the comprehensive building of a moderately prosperous society


               interactive process. As important social service institutions in this process, libraries need to
               moderate their educational functions, improve public morality quality, and to reconcile social
               contradictions. Meanwhile, libraries should play the intermediary function, guide all sectors
               of society to express interests, promote communication, and assist to construct multi-subject
               participation governance framework and social mechanism. Specifically, libraries could form
               service characteristics through business models innovation and business processes optimization,
               extend services to communities, and make libraries supporting institutions of city innovation or
               community innovation.



               4.2  Balanced development

               Balanced development is compared with in terms of the unbalanced development, investment and
               technology adoption of existing urban and rural libraries, services for comprehensive building of a
               moderately prosperous society in all respects.
                 (1) Giving same emphasis on developing urban and rural libraries. In recent years, various
               construction models in the construction of public library service systems have been formed in Pearl
               River Delta, Yangtze River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region and Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan.
               They have carried on the beneficial exploration on balanced development pattern in terms of
               coordinated development of regional libraries, urban and rural libraries and urban agglomerations.
               To support rural library services, our country has implemented National Cultural Information
               Resources Sharing Project, Rural Book Houses Project, etc. But on the whole, there is still a great
               gap between urban and rural library services. So we need to further play the role of city libraries,
               provide support to local rural libraries through the infrastructure of city libraries; construct perfect
               library service network system, use electronic reading rooms, book circulation cars, help rural
               readers enjoy equal and convenient service and share cultural resources; combine city libraries and
               rural libraries organically, stimulate potential and vitality of rural libraries.
                 (2) Serving both migrant and local populations without discrimination. Serving floating
               population is the type of business that our libraries need to strengthen urgently. Large migrant
               workers group mostly providesservices to industries like catering, sanitation, construction,
               transportation and others; they inject new vitality to social and economic development. Migrant
               workers generally have lower education level, their leisure activities are monotonous, but they
               all have the need of cultural life. They are eager to improve cultural literacy, and enjoy the
               same cultural rights as local residents. Public libraries’ public welfare determines that they must
               strengthen city library constructions, and provide cultural services for the migrant workers. For
               example, in 2013, a survey showed that 80.9% of the respondents have experienced problems in
               getting an ID card, one of the difficulties is information asymmetry. In America, three fourths of
               libraries offer community, civic engagement, ore-government programs. Nearly all libraries offer
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