Why China’s Libraries Are Always Full | A Night Inside the National Library of China

Visiting the National Library of China in Beijing (中国国家图书馆) — the largest library in Asia and one of the largest libraries in the world — to understand why so many people come here to study.
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Through a night visit and a real-time tour, I look beyond the architecture to focus on the people inside:
what they are studying, how long they study for, and why libraries in China play such an important role in everyday life.

0:00 Intro
1:45 Let's take a tour!
4:25 More Than Studying
5:48 From Imperial Exam to Gaokao
7:49 Beyond Gaokao
9:43 And the food?
10:45 Wraps-up