Abstract: Due to an urban-rural integrative public library service system being constructed in Jiaxing,
“Jiaxing Model” has taken shape, and is continuously being innovated. It is characterized by “government
playing a dominant role”, “strategic overall planning”, “multi-level investment”, “centralized controlling”,
“resource sharing” and “service innovation”. The recent two decades has witnessed distinguished social
benefits in almost all main-branch libraries, positive acknowledgement from all walks of life, and the
basic realization of universal public library services. Based on interviews and literature reviews, this paper
systematically combs various stages of such an urban-rural library service development, elaborates the
mechanism design, and expounds the key issues and corresponding solutions. Finally, future expectations
and ideas for further development is put forward.

Key words: Jiaxing Library, Central-branch library, Public library service system, Jiaxing Model, Urbanrural
integration