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Corner-Stone Laid For New Complex Of China's National Library. A maquette of the new National Library of China. The library will be built on the northern side of Zizhuyuan Park in the northwestern part of Beijing, covering a floor space of 140,000 square meters. The main building will have a storage capacity of 20 million books, and the reading rooms will have 3,000 seats. When the new complex is finished, the library will become one of the biggest modern libraries in the world. Photo by Gu Dehua