The new library uses "Beautiful Books" as the design concept, and the placement of the structure is based on the city's new central axis.

The new Guangzhou Library covers a gross area of 100 thousand square meters and holds 8.43 million collection.

In the same year, fund-raising commissioners were sent to the United States, Cuba, Canada and Mexico and received a lot of donations from the overseas Chinese.

In 1928, the Preparatory Committee for the Construction of the Municipal Zhongshan Library was established, with sixteen members, including Lin Yungai and [[Du Dingyou|Du Dingyou (杜定友; 1898–1967)]] (a renowned librarian in modern China).

In 1929, construction of the Municipal Zhongshan Library commenced at site of the original Cantonese Confucius Temple on Wende Road.

[3][4] In 1945, as China won in the war against Japanese invasion, Du Dingyou served concurrently as director of the Preparatory Office for the Re-establishment of the Municipal Zhongshan Library.

From October 2004 to January 2005, the Guangzhou Library organized an international invitational tournament to solicit the best design proposal for its new premise.