China’s ‘city of libraries’ is now the world's leading tech empire
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From unstaffed self-service book-borrowing kiosks open 24-7, to a grand building that has robots fetching paperbacks from its multimillion collection of titles across nine floors, there's a reason that Shenzhen is known as China's "city of libraries." Sure, this may sound kind of boring, but the city in the southern Guangdong province has also just been named as the country's leader in wealthy entrepreneurs and is the beating heart of China's AI and tech industry. Continue Reading Category: History , Technology Tags: Shenzhen , China , Library , Reading , Digital Media , Social media , Smartphones
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