The Twelfth Five-Year Plan offers a good environment for public libraries and an opportunity to create the national public cultural service system demonstration projects.The main themes and issues reflected in the demonstration projects’ creation standards are:enhancing service capacity and improving service effectiveness;promoting remote and mobile services;and advancing the indexing of key tasks.There are three types of 'public library projects' in the first demonstration projects:exploration and practice of the main-branch library system;infrastructure construction for community public libraries;national reading activities.To participate in creating demonstration projects,public libraries need the following:first,to form a schedule,a roadmap and supporting mechanisms that reach the standards;and second,to identify problems that need to be solved in the creation process.The problems that need special attention include:improving service capability and efficiency in an open and free environment;building a scientific and appropriate facility coverage radius and relevant metrics and investigating the principles and standards of mobile,digital,and location-based services;exploring and utilizing equipment from the culture sharing project and the integration plan for digital libraries and digital culture centers.