Recently, Liaojiang branch of Zixing 24-hour Self-service Library opened, which is also the first rural 24-hour self-service library in Chenzhou.

Liaojiang branch of Zixing 24-hour Self-service Library implements all day free and intelligent self-service operation. There are more than 1000 paper books in the library. As long as the villagers hold their ID cards or library cards and enter the library directly, they can realize the self-service borrowing and returning service through the self-service borrowing and returning machine. "As long as readers hold a valid reader's card and borrow books from the Zhoumensi branch library seven or eighty kilometers away, they can go to the Liaojiang branch to return , which is more than one hundred kilometers away. It's very convenient." City Library Director Chen Hui said.

Up to now, Zixing City has set up three 24-hour self-service library branches in Tangdong Street, Liaojiang Town and Zhoumensi Town, and will complete the construction of 24-hour self-service library in Dongjiang Street by the end of September. All self-service libraries have more than 10000 copies of 22 kinds of paper books, such as history, humanities and children's books. The books are updated in a month cycle to provide villagers with all day high-quality reading services.

The construction of 24-hour library is an important part of the project of "benefiting people through culture" in Zixing City. In order to provide a wider range of services and higher utilization rate of the 24-hour library, Zixing City will regularly hold activities such as nationwide reading, various reading corners, sending books to the countryside, and invite volunteers or students to do volunteer services in the library. Through the establishment of 24-hour library, the atmosphere of national reading in Zixing is created and the cultural quality of the whole people is improved.