Chinese delegation in the NSZL

On 11 July 2024, the Deputy Secretary General of the Chinese Secretariat of the CEEC Curators' Forum of Libraries Union, the Deputy Director of the library of Hangzhou, a city of 10 million people in eastern China, Ms Hu Fang, her librarian colleague Ms He Xiaoxi and the Embassy Secretary for Cultural and Educational Affairs, Mr Li Jieling, visited the National Library.  

The delegation was welcomed by Dávid Rózsa, Director General, Judit Gerencsér, Deputy Director General and Zoltán Lewalt-Jezierski, Head of the Director General's Cabinet. During the meeting, the guests were introduced to the mission and tasks of the NSZL, the history and operation of the library, as well as its most important and recent library innovations.    

They also discussed the possible future cooperation between the libraries, the future joint opportunities and the third international library forum in Nanjing, China's famous historical and cultural city, held between 21 and 24 October 2023, where Dávid Rózsa and Zoltán Lewalt-Jezierski represented Hungary.

After the meeting, the delegation visited the building and the Land of Poems exhibition, which focuses on the manuscripts and most important editions of our emblematic poems – the Hymn, the Appeal, the National Song – treasured in the National Library.

The guests visited our temporary exhibition The Forms of Time and the indoor exhibition of football-themed films, posters, manuscripts and artefacts in the NSZL's ceremonial hall, which was set up for the 2024 European Football Championship.

The meeting continued with a presentation of the library's digitisation equipment and activities by Manó Barnabás Kukár, Deputy Head of the Collection Preservation Department, who gave the guests an insight into the complex tasks of digitisation and the process of handling legal deposit copies.  

Finally, Csilla Kőrösi and Anna Laskai from the Research and Special Collections Department showed our guests some of the unique treasures related to Chinese culture that are kept at the NSZL.