China Liren Rural Library (2012)

The Liren Rural Library was a NGO in China, which devoted to helping rural students and left-behind children to broaden their reading horizons by providing free access to books and education opportunities. The broad goal of Liren is to cultivate civil society in China. Unfortunately, all of the 22 libraries was closed under tremendous pressure from governmental authorities in 2014.

These pictures was taken at one of its site at Xinyang, Henan Province before its termination in 2012.