"The China National Archives of Publications and Culture, with its headquarters and three branches, will facilitate the planning and coordinating, surveying and collecting, preserving and exhibiting and the research and exchange of edition resources," says Liu Chengyong, director of the China National Archives of Publications and Culture.

From official historians of the Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-256 BC), stone chambers of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC) and Tianlu Ge of the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), to the Hongwen Library of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), Chongwen Academy during the Song Dynasty (960-1279), Wenyuan Ge in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and the seven imperial libraries of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), China has always attached great importance to the preservation of publication editions, he says.

The national archives will become a new cultural landmark of the country, he says.