[Voiceover] At a time when U.S. libraries are losing money to federal funding cuts, libraries across China are upgrading theirs with AI-based sorting and reshelving systems. The Sun Yat-sen Library of Guangdong Province in south China adds roughly 300,000 new books to its shelves every year. The process to classify, catalog and label those books is time consuming, taking workers about 20 days per 2,000 books. But thanks to a new automated scanning and labeling system, the process takes just 10 minutes. In east China, the Zhejiang Library is now using an intelligent book return and sorting system. Books are dropped into a kiosk that’s connected to a conveyor belt. Yellow trays then deliver the books across a network of tracks to their appropriate bins for reshelving. [Soundbite] Mei Ying, head, network and digital resources center, Zhejiang Library: "The system can handle 1,500 book returns and sorting per hour, with accuracy improved from the 95 percent required by manual processing to over 99.8 percent handled by machines." [Voiceover] And in Beijing, the National Library of China has established an online system that’s expected to achieve digital interconnectivity among public library resources nationwide later this year. [Restrictions: No access Chinese mainland]