by Frank Furedi, On private libraries
"Young people sitting in a bar checking their phones for texts are not making a statement about their refined literary status. They are signalling that they are connected and – most importantly – that their attention is in constant demand."
by Luo Weiteng, China Daily 9 Oct 2020.
Yang Lu, a former librarian in Chengdu, Sichuan's provincial capital, regarded Wu's story as the epitome of well-developed public services and the wisdom of urban governance in the Pearl River Delta region, where the public library makes a living embodiment.
"However, it should be noted that such library services are not necessarily accessible in many less-developed areas. The hard fact is that many people have never been to or even heard of a library in their lives."
(Wikipedia China Daily (Chinese: 中国日报; pinyin: Zhōngguó Rìbào) is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.)