| 22-11 Statistics on Public Library by Region (2010) | ||||||||
| Region | Number | Total | Accumulative | Number | Number of | Number of | ||
| of Public | Collections | Purchased | Number of | of | Number of | Books and | Seats in | |
| Library | (1000 | this | Library | Circulation | Readers | Magazines | Reading | |
| (unit) | volumes) | Year | Cards | (1000 | Having | Lent to | Room | |
| Distributed | person- | Borrowed | Readers | (unit) | ||||
| (units) | times) | Books | (1000 | |||||
| volume- | ||||||||
| times) | ||||||||
| National Total | 2884 | 617261 | 29559 | 20195175 | 328233 | 139342 | 263917 | 630683 |
| Central Level | 1 | 28979 | 1233 | 1135622 | 5330 | 812 | 1434 | 6877 |
| Beijing | 24 | 17154 | 1248 | 923216 | 7755 | 3603 | 8044 | 12852 |
| Tianjin | 31 | 12583 | 740 | 364322 | 6062 | 2536 | 5717 | 9072 |
| Hebei | 165 | 16109 | 676 | 564891 | 7364 | 3599 | 4925 | 21858 |
| Shanxi | 126 | 12079 | 445 | 233496 | 3739 | 1904 | 2824 | 15983 |
| Inner Mongolia | 113 | 9400 | 667 | 147284 | 3116 | 1959 | 3122 | 16537 |
| Liaoning | 128 | 29533 | 1569 | 862435 | 14573 | 6011 | 14559 | 30220 |
| Jilin | 65 | 13802 | 519 | 179833 | 5032 | 2132 | 4124 | 13820 |
| Heilongjiang | 107 | 16439 | 708 | 764006 | 6219 | 2419 | 4786 | 18013 |
| Shanghai | 28 | 68087 | 1764 | 1079855 | 18525 | 5791 | 14612 | 19427 |
| Jiangsu | 111 | 43700 | 2589 | 2067302 | 30058 | 15963 | 25422 | 38912 |
| Zhejiang | 97 | 37612 | 3368 | 1774309 | 34541 | 13761 | 29239 | 35068 |
| Anhui | 88 | 12358 | 612 | 246163 | 7599 | 3826 | 6832 | 15778 |
| Fujian | 86 | 16817 | 1033 | 471750 | 11933 | 5827 | 10969 | 25136 |
| Jiangxi | 108 | 15201 | 651 | 506189 | 6389 | 3597 | 5624 | 22042 |
| Shandong | 149 | 36358 | 1334 | 1284212 | 17172 | 9152 | 15145 | 37061 |
| Henan | 142 | 18372 | 954 | 680260 | 10257 | 5189 | 9147 | 23595 |
| Hubei | 107 | 23611 | 603 | 1041636 | 15155 | 9381 | 18462 | 26814 |
| Hunan | 124 | 19614 | 796 | 814353 | 10275 | 5059 | 10586 | 30031 |
| Guangdong | 132 | 46155 | 3682 | 2584012 | 45399 | 11658 | 22665 | 59148 |
| Guangxi | 108 | 18809 | 563 | 262427 | 13428 | 3564 | 7328 | 24665 |
| Hainan | 20 | 2850 | 253 | 112837 | 1721 | 694 | 865 | 4173 |
| Chongqing | 43 | 10308 | 516 | 159850 | 6213 | 3404 | 7055 | 13568 |
| Sichuan | 161 | 25991 | 949 | 482352 | 11680 | 5442 | 9235 | 26281 |
| Guizhou | 93 | 8121 | 266 | 189489 | 3691 | 1427 | 2223 | 12220 |
| Yunnan | 150 | 15660 | 429 | 318400 | 9070 | 4026 | 7024 | 21034 |
| Tibet | 4 | 535 | 22 | 5467 | 27 | 10 | 36 | 295 |
| Shaanxi | 112 | 11271 | 425 | 304105 | 5193 | 1955 | 3055 | 14355 |
| Gansu | 94 | 10418 | 260 | 202647 | 4683 | 2203 | 3450 | 13352 |
| Qinghai | 44 | 3578 | 56 | 77316 | 895 | 199 | 423 | 3108 |
| Ningxia | 20 | 4623 | 307 | 125202 | 1631 | 533 | 1817 | 5201 |
| Xinjiang | 103 | 11134 | 323 | 229937 | 3504 | 1708 | 3167 | 14187 |