Chongqing - Chongqing Library recently unveiled its branch in the Maylook Eye Hospital, the first time it opened a branch in an eye hospital.

During the unveiling ceremony, Feng Lun, a renowned Chinese entrepreneur, writer, and orator, delivered a keynote speech on Business Wisdom and Underlying Logic, sharing his book with readers.

Feng Lun, a renowned Chinese entrepreneur, writer, and orator, delivered a keynote speech on Business Wisdom and Underlying Logic, sharing his book with readers. (Photo/Lu Chenchen)

According to Ren Jing, director of Chongqing Library, the branch library in the Maylook Eye Hospital aims to make patients, readers, and employees feel a sense of happiness through reading.

“Our hospital focuses on the prevention and control of myopia for teenagers,” said Fu Guanjun, board chairman of Maylook Eye Hospital. “Many teenagers’ eyesight has been impaired due to long-time contact with electric screens. We established the library to enable patients to read books everywhere in the hospital instead of staring at the screen.”

“Without the interruption of electric screens, patients can feel the calmness and accomplishment of reading,” he added.

The library is home to above 10,000 books covering social and natural sciences, classified with children’s picture books, literature, art, education, economy, and computer science. All the books are free to the public. Additionally, the library will introduce activities like public lectures, exhibitions, and saloons.

The branch library also sets up open stack reading rooms respectively on three floors, providing personalized and humanized service of drinking water supply, air cooling, sofas, sockets, and network coverage.  

The branch of Chongqing Library in the Maylook Eye Hospital. (Photo/Maylook Eye Hospital)

Chongqing Library is one of China’s large comprehensive libraries, collecting over 4.6 million books. In recent years, Chongqing Library has opened up a number of branches in communities and enterprises, making residents enjoy the fun of reading nearby.

The Maylook branch library was co-founded by Chongqing Library and Maylook Eye Hospital, a local hospital in cooperation with Singapore and settled in Chongqing Liangjiang New Area, listed in the cooperative projects of China-Singapore (Chongqing) Demonstration Initiative on Strategic Connectivity.

Maylook Eye Hospital is an international specialized hospital engaging in ophthalmology treatment and teenagers’ eyesight prevention and control; it established five centers, including an international medical center, an international remote medicine center, an international ophthalmology center, a teenager myopia prevention and control training center, a teenager myopia prevention and control science center, and vision correction research center. 

It operates with universities and medical institutions from Singapore, Malaysia, France, and the United States.