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open-source application market, and maintaining the open technology ecology. Yunhan will rely
on the organization “Chinese Alliance for Library Service Platform”, explore the open community
operation mode, establish the application ecology, and devote itself to the improvement of
localized products and services, so as to help Chinese libraries to move towards the smart library
era.

Systemization as the external and specialization as the internal: development
strategies of public libraries in the vision of the culturally advanced China

FANG Jiazhong 〇a*

In 2035, China will build itself into a culturally advanced power, which is the country’s cultural
development vision in the new era. Since 2004, China has started the historical process of
promoting equal services of public libraries which takes realizing and safeguarding the basic
cultural rights and interests and meeting the basic cultural needs of the public as the policy goal,
the universal equality as the principle, the building of the service system of public libraries,
especially the system of county level central branch libraries, as the path. This process has made
historic achievements but has not been completed yet. Under the cultural development vision of the
new era, the mission of the development of public libraries is to continue to achieve equal services
in the whole society. To realize this vision, the goal is to build a five-level backbone network
of central, provincial, prefectural, county and township, especially to improve the basic service
network of township streets, and advocate doubling the service efficiency every five years, so as to
enable the library service network covering the whole country to effectively play its roles in public
life, social operation and national progress, among which building backbone network and realizing
service systemization are the primary tasks of public libraries in the construction of a culturally
advanced country.
The vision of building a culturally advanced power and the new scientific and technological
revolution have brought opportunities for the development of libraries. Libraries should seize the
opportunities and promote intelligent transformation. However, in the process of systematization
and backbone network construction, libraries are also faced with great challenges that human
resources, financial and other guarantees from the government might be insufficient. It is necessary
for the library industry to give full play to its roles through efficiency improvement to reflect social
benefits and values, and strive for increased government investment and more participation and
support from social forces. Under the new era background, especially during the “14th Five-Year
Plan” period, the library industry should be fully prepared on self-reliance to fulfill its missions,
achieve its goals, seize opportunities, respond to challenges from the aspects of professional

*Correspondence should be addressed to FANG Jiazhong, Email:gtfjz@gzlib.gov.cn, ORCID:0000-0002-2569-3785.