Covering an area of 80,538 square meters, the newly expanded national library offers 2,900 seats and a capacity to cater to 8,000 readers daily with about 600,000 books. [Chinanews]
(Xinhua News Agency September 10, 2008)
![Covering an area of 80,538 square meters, the newly expanded national library offers 2,900 seats and a capacity to cater to 8,000 readers daily with about 600,000 books. [Chinanews]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20080910/0019b91ed7d10a3187ff1e.jpg "Covering an area of 80,538 square meters, the newly expanded national library offers 2,900 seats and a capacity to cater to 8,000 readers daily with about 600,000 books. [Chinanews]")
