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Culture: Bookstores for farmers
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-09-14 14:40
China on Thursday announced an ambitious plan to establish 200,000
bookstores in its vast rural areas in five years.
"Each rural bookstore project will at least have 1,000 books, 30
magazines and periodicals and some audio visual products," Liu Binjie,
vice director of the State Press and Publication Administration told a
news briefing.
Liu said the project, with a total investment of four billion yuan (about
506 million US dollars), is aimed to promote education and popularize
science and technology in rural areas.
He said the bookstores, with each to be built at an estimated 20,000
yuan, will be sponsored by the government and also open to public
donation. "Within 10 years, we hope each village will have its own
bookstore," he said. China's rural population is about 900 million.
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