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The Library Project is very excited to announce that they have provided twelve elementary school libraries in less than a month throughout China. The Library Project donated thousands of Chinese language children’s books, as well as tables, chairs, plants, globes, and children’s dictionaries. Librarian training was provided at each library with hopes that it will substantially improve the education children will receive at each elementary school.

Over the past year The Library Project donated over sixty libraries to rural elementary schools throughout China. 14,581 elementary school students benefited from over 57,200 children’s books...

This is a 10 minute conversation with the founder of The Library Project and Christine Lu of The China Business Network. They talked about The Library Project, some of the difficulties doing business in China that they encounter, their most recent successes, and their future libraries that they will be providing. Happy listening!

The University of Maryland's Smith School of Business in Shanghai held a very successful charity fundraiser for The Library Project on November 24, 2007.

With the help of over twenty corporate and individual sponsors, the Smith School was able to donate over 45,000 RMB ($6,000 USD) to The Library Project. This very generous donation will help The Library Project provide books and furniture to six countryside elementary schools in China.

The Library Project will be donating thousands of Chinese language children’s books, hundreds of tables and chairs, plants, globes, children’s dictionaries, and providing librarian training to an entire school district in the ShaanXi Province.

The China Daily published an article yesterday that praised the Chongqing Daily for paying less attention to political leaders.

Looks like the times they are a'changin' and China's youth are all about the nookie. A China Daily article recently discovered that an "overwhelming majority" of high school girls would not turn away requests for sex by their boyfriends.

Though, the article points out, only 6.2% have actually had sex, it would seem the rest are chomping at the bit to try it. What's next? Skipping school to smoke pot behind the chou doufu stand?

Tom, of The Library Project, sits down with Lost Laowai and gives us the skinny on this excellent cause helping bring books, and change, to impoverished areas of China.

Excellent report by Joel Martinsen about the overhaul of a Beijing newspaper in the wake of the 'cardboard baozi' affair.