On March 6, the Can Tho City Construction Investment Project Management Board said that the Can Tho City Library construction investment project, with a total investment of nearly 150 billion VND, had officially started construction at the end of February 2025 on Phan Dinh Phung Street, Tan An Ward, Ninh Kieu District.
The special feature of this project is the preservation of 13 artifacts with a trunk diameter of 84 - 140 cm in the project area.
According to the Can Tho City Construction Investment Project Management Board, instead of cutting down, these 13 ancient trees will be relocated to other projects. Currently, specialized agencies are coordinating to carry out the relocation, ensuring the safety of the trees and the construction progress.
Can Tho City Library is built on an area of nearly 2,500 m2, including the expanded land from the Department of Foreign Affairs. The project has a scale of 7 floors and a roof, with a modern design, meeting the needs of about 800 people at the same time.
In which, the basement includes an exhibition area, event organizer, cinema, bookstore. The first floor includes the main hall combined with exhibition, event organization, and book coffee. The 3rd - 5th floors include a common reading room, a bookcase and a document processing area.
The library is capable of containing at least 950,000 books on 1,500 shelves, with a total of 1,000 seats. This is the first architectural design competition headquarters in the city. The contractor is Ngoc Bao Construction and Trading Company Limited (Ho Chi Minh City), expected to complete the project within 24 months.
Can Tho City Library was built with the goal of implementing cultural, educational, information and entertainment functions, enriching people's spiritual life and developing the city's socio-economy. The library also promotes its role as a city-level cultural center, managing and serving a large amount of document information, meeting the research, learning and entertainment needs of people inside and outside the city, contributing to building a reading style in society, developing the future reading generation.
