China's economy has been growing very fast in recent years, and China becomes more and more open to the outside world. At the same time, the construction of the global information infrastructure has become a world trend. The Chinese government is promoting the construction of the China Information Infrastructure (CII), with regarding the Internet connection as one of its major concerns. This situation leads to Chinese electronic library development. This article introduces some electronic libraries, such as, The Documentation and Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, The National Library of China, and The Tsinghua University Library. These electronic libraries not only have some general functions, but also some specials, for example,"virtual library","electronic reading room", etc. This article also introduces some electronic library networks in China and CII supporting electronic library networks. The latter are CHINAPAC (China Public Packet Switched Data Network), CHINADDN (China Digital Data Network), CERNET (China Education and Research Network), and NCFC (the National Computing and Facilities of China).
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