[1] Currently, Yuhuan City Library is managed by the Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film, Television, Press, and Publication of Yuhuan[4] and is designated as a national first-grade library by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

In August 1978, the Yuhuan County Library was established based on this reading room,[3] and it became independent in 1985.

By 1988, it had established regular data exchange relationships with more than 100 research institutions, colleges, and libraries nationwide, collecting a total of 5,780 internal materials from collaborating units.

[2] In October 1999, it was designated as a national second-grade library by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China.

[2] The library has four floors: The first floor houses the lending room (with service desk) that provides lending and reading services, an electronic reading room for network queries, and the acquisitions and cataloging department responsible for book procurement and classification.

It also accommodates the Information Technology Service Department responsible for technical operations, as well as the office of the library director and secretary.

With a construction area of nearly 10,500 square meters, it consists of a basement and two floors above ground, featuring a frame-shear structure, divided into three venues.

[16] In November 2012, the library introduced the Bokan Humanities and Social Sciences Periodical Database Service.

[1] In May 2015, the Children's Activity Room was officially opened to the public, and the library, in collaboration with the Yuhuan City Women's Federation, launched the "Yueyue" parent-child public welfare class, inviting child experts to give lectures.

[22] On November 5, 2012, the first branch library of Yuhuan City, the Chumen Library, was officially opened to the public, jointly built by the Chumen Town Government and the Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film, Television, Press, and Publication of Chumen County (now the Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film, Television, Press, and Publication of Yuhuan).

It is managed according to unified standards with the Yuhuan Library and shares books and various digital resources.