At the present time most of China's primary and secondary schools have established libraries or reading rooms. Cooperative networks of libraries have developed rapidly. Vocational training and continuing education courses have been developed for teachers who run the school libraries. The function of the library has been transformed from book collecting to book opening to teachers and students. There are still problems.
Services vary greatly in different areas of the country.
Service is still weak and the low efficiency of libraries has not produced the expected result of increasing book circulation and after-class reading of students. Shortage of funds is still a problem. Overall quality of professional staff is not high. The development of school libraries is limited because authorities have an insufficient understanding of the role of the library, too much emphasis on helping students get into higher education rather than broadening their interests and skills,society often sees no benefit in reading books because money can be made without education. Trends in school libraries include greater standardization and regularization, cooperation, modernization.