Located within New Town Cultural Park west of downtown Cangzhou, Cangzhou Library together with Cangzhou Planning Library, Cangzhou International Convention Center,International Exhibition Center and City of lion Park have formed new cultural landmarks.It has become a cultural window in Cangzhou.

Cangzhou Library covers a land area of 57 mu and a covered area of 31714 square meters. Its architectural image manifests the style organically fusing natural, humanistic andcity architectural space and gives full play to its profound historical and cultural connotation and modern cultural sentiments in Cangzhou. It puts ‘Sudoku’ as the basic prototype for layout. The central unit of ‘Sudoku’ is cortile and garth; its four corner blocks form a book-shaped image characteristic that tally with the significance of Confucian classics, historical records, philosophical writing and miscellaneous works or Four Branches of Literature. The concaved block in the middle is covered with 108 letters of ‘books’ in seal characters. The shape design also takes in the image element of ‘hopper’ shape in traditional Chinese culture that forms the basic form of the building. It embodies the library’s upwards gazeat the ether, its extensive inclusion of knowledge and information, its all-inclusiveness and its continuous exploration of the unknown.

Cangzhou Library has reserved more than 0.8 million books including 0.5 million common books, over 5000 magazines, more than 10,000 ancient books and over 20,000 local literature related with Cangzhou. It reserves the photocopy version of Si Ku Quan Shu (Complete Library in the Four Branches of Literature), Amendment of Si Ku Quan Shu and theYongle Canon (the Imperial Library edition) as well as The Book of Jin, an amended version in Ming and Qing Dynasties, Outline on History as a Mirror, the block-printed edition by Emperor Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty, Inkstone by JiXiaolan, the Republic China version, Chronicle of Cangxian County, the Republic China version, Ta Kung Pao one-volume edition and other precious literatures. It also reserves such digital resources as Wanfang Data, Longyuan Periodical, Super Star Digital Library, TOFO Audible Digital Libary, Apabi full-text digital library, CNKI and so forth. Its digital resources have reached 53TB.

By adheringto the service concept of ‘equality, free charge and no hindrance’, Cangzhou Libraryis dedicated to growing into a ‘cozy study characterized by spectacular lobby hallfor the public’.