READING INTO THE FUTURE

The National Library of China is building a new book repository to protect China's ancient literary treasures - and its cultural heritage - for future generations. Wang Kaihao reports.

China is preparing to build a "Noah's Ark" for precious books and documents from ancient times, an official from the National Library of China in Beijing revealed in a recent interview with China Daily.

A National Strategic Repository for Documents will be built in Chengde county, Hebei province, according to Sun Yigang, deputy director of the NLC.