Chinaattachesincreasingimportancetopubliclibrariesandencouragespeopletomakefulluseofthem. ThenewlyreleasedstatisticsindicatethatthenumberofpubliclibrariesinChinaisonanincreaseyearbyyear. Manylibrarieshavecreatedaquieterandmorecomfortableenvironmentforreadersthroughrenovationandexpansion. Notonlydolarge-scalepubliclibrariesprovideawiderangeofreferencematerials，buttheyalsoregularlyholdlectures, exhibitionsandotheractivities. Inrecentyears, therehavealsobeenmanydigitallibraries, savingthespaceneededtostorebooks. Inaddition, somelibrarieshaveintroducedself-servicesystems, whichmakeitmoreconvenientforreaderstoborrowandreturnbooks, andfurthermeettheneedsofreaders.