The Ministry of Education in coordination with the National Library and Documentation Services Board launched a dedicated China Corner at the National Library and Documentation Services Board in Colombo on 16 December 2010.

The special unit is established under the theme ‘Window to China’ as the local component of the international programme that distributes reliable information on China worldwide. The programme also marks the first step of establishing direct cooperation between the National Library of China and Sri Lanka.

“More than 700 books on China have been displayed at the China Corner at the National Library and Documentation Services Board in Colombo for the local readership and it will be increased in the future,” said the Political Counselor of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Sri Lanka, Han Tao.

‘Mahajana Cheenaya’ (People’s China), the Sinhalese magazine of 34 pages that is issued once in every two month interval by the Sri Lanka-China Journalists Forum (SLCJF), was recognized at the occasion as the major catalyst that initiated and directed to open a China Corner at the National Library and Documentation Services Board in Colombo.

Parallel to the inauguration of ‘Window to China’ programme, an on-line catalogue that links the programme through www.natlib.lk was also declared open by Tao.