Translation. Region: Russian Federal
Source: People’s Republic of China in Russian – People’s Republic of China in Russian –
Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, May 7 (Xinhua) — The establishment of the China-Russia Library Union was announced at the Heihe Institute on Tuesday, the Zhongxinshe News Agency reported.
The new organization was established on the initiative of the Heihe Institute Library in the city of the same name in Heilongjiang Province in northeastern China and the Amur Regional Scientific Library. It represents the first platform for activating bilateral cooperation in the field of library science.
At the founding meeting held on the same day, the union’s board was elected and a mechanism for long-term cooperation was created.
The China-Russia Library Union aims to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the joint creation and sharing of digital resources and multilingual information services.
The scientific seminar, which was held as part of the founding meeting, was attended by the Director General of the Russian State Library, President of the Russian Library Association Vadim Duda, Director of the Library of the Harbin Institute of Technology Liu Hongwei and more than 70 experts from both sides.
According to experts, the Chinese-Russian Library Union will provide professional and intellectual support to promote the development of bilateral cultural and educational interaction and humanitarian cooperation. -0-