Books at a touch

China Braille Library, the country's only such specialist facility, is working alongside other agencies to take more titles to blind readers. Xing Yi reports.

Of the more than 400,000 new titles and re - issued books published in China last year, only around 1,400 were in Braille, the system of writing and printing for blind people, devised by the late blind French national Louis Braille.

The lack of Braille books isn't the only obstacle stopping visually impaired Chinese from reading more; there are other problems that need to be addressed by the government, libraries and nonprofit organizations. The role of libraries seems to be crucial here.