Tianjin Binhai New Area Cultural Center Library has been praised by netizens on the Internet as the closest statement about paradise and library on Borges. The library atrium uses punched aluminum plates combined with color printing to create the shape of "Shushan Mountain". The real and fake books complement each other, expressing the connotation of "there is a path to the mountain of books" and "books are the ladder of human progress". In the center of the atrium is a spherical multi-functional lecture hall with a diameter of 21 meters, which can accommodate nearly 100 people. The 440,000 LED lights on the surface of the sphere can display a variety of patterns and text.
"The famous Argentine writer Borges once said, 'If there is a paradise in this world, it should be the appearance of a library'. The library is a gathering place for human knowledge, thoughts and wisdom, an important base for public cultural services, and a harbor for people's hearts." Han Yongjin, a member of the National People's Congress, a member of the Education, Science, Culture and Health Committee of the National People's Congress, and chairman of the National Library Council, expressed emotionally during the Two Sessions that no matter how the form of knowledge and information carriers develops and changes, the unique role of the library will not change.
"Take Beijing as an example, the number of public libraries has increased significantly this year, which can be compared with the big cities in developed countries in the world. Compared with the International Federation of Pictures, the number of public libraries is at the forefront." Han Yongjin said that Beijing has taken strong measures to support the development of physical bookstores. Now physical bookstores are not only selling books, but also becoming very warm libraries, bringing warmth, wisdom and thoughts to people in the city, allowing people to feel the unique charm of a harmonious and livable city.
The first impression that the new library of the National Library of China, which opened in 2008, gave readers is the horizontally stretched body shape and simple style. Its giant steel structure roof is like a "book", supported by "people" on a base full of strong Chinese cultural colors; an escalator without support leads directly from the second floor to the fourth floor, allowing readers to enter and exit the reading room; "Siku Quanshu", one of the four major collections of the National Library, is placed between the iconic atrium and the reader's reading area, extending from the underground floor to the above-ground floor, readers can appreciate it from any angle. Its ancient and solid bookcase presents the beauty of architecture due to its rhythmic arrangement.
"We have reached the present by relying on learning, and we must rely on learning to the future." In today's social development, we need to have a "re-understanding" of libraries, national reading, learning power, and a book-flavored society. The so-called "re-understanding" is to break through the understanding in the sense of traditional culture. Han Yongjin admitted, "In the past, we paid more attention to the allocation of material capital, and in the current social development process, we need to pay more attention to the allocation of human capital. Because no matter how high-tech develops, talent is the most critical." There are three main ways to allocate and accumulate human capital: the first way is learning, the second way is to accumulate experience, and the third is the influence of various environments such as family, society, and teachers. "Reading and learning are not only about improving quality in the cultural sense, but also improving the ideological, creativity and cultural power of the whole nation."
"The development of culture includes the development of reading and learning. This is the greatest harmony dividend of society and the greatest dividend after the demographic dividend and institutional dividend." In Han Yongjin's view, Beijing will build more libraries in the next step, hoping to use these carriers to let citizens feel stronger cultural power, so that the people like to read, love reading, good reading, and read good books, and feel the warmth and power of culture.