Xiong Yuanming, Director of the NLC, holds a video conference with Pavel Kuzmin, Director General of M. Rudomino All Russia State Library for Foreign Literature

Date: 2021.12.13

On 7 December, Xiong Yuanming, Director of the National Library of China (NLC), held a video conference with Pavel Kuzmin, Director General of M. Rudomino All Russia State Library for Foreign Literature. Chen Ying, Deputy Director of the NLC, and Maria Belokolenko, Deputy Director General of M. Rudomino All Russia State Library for Foreign Literature, also attended the conference.

Xiong Yuanming expressed his thanks for the efforts made by M. Rudomino All Russia State Library for Foreign Literature in deepening the exchanges and cooperation between library communities in China and Russia in recent years, introduced the general situation of the NLC, and briefly reviewed the exchanges and cooperation between the library communities and the two libraries between the two countries. He said that the deepening and development of friendly relations between the two countries had provided great opportunities and bright prospects for exchanges and cooperation between the two libraries. He hoped that the two libraries would continue to explore and broaden the online cooperation and exchange mode, deepen the exchange and cooperation among library professional institutions, and jointly promote the high-quality development of the Silk Road International Library Alliance.

Pavel Kuzmin introduced the orientation, collection and development objectives of M. Rudomino All Russia State Library for Foreign Literature. He focused on the cultural and educational activities and international cooperation projects in the library field with the core concepts of "library witnessing great victory" and "library as a cultural bridge between countries", introduced future strategic development priority and online services and activities planned and implemented in response to the normalization of the epidemic, and put forward suggestions on publicizing and promoting the Silk Road International Library Alliance on the international stage and jointly helping to enhance the international influence of the alliance.

Zhang Wei, Deputy Director the NLC Research Institute (Coordination & Operation Management Division), Zhang Xu, Director of the NLC International Cooperation Division, Daria Beliakova, Head of Centre for Library Science and Professional Cooperation of M. Rudomino All Russia State Library for Foreign Literature, Julia Sozina, Director for Science and Education of M. Rudomino All Russia State Library for Foreign Literature, and so on, attended the conference.