The education of library and information science in China, beginning with3-academic-year schools, started in 1913. It closed down during the CulturalRevolution. The educational system now includes three levels: 1) the ad-vanced special training for Ph.D, MA and non-degree graduate students; 2) theordinary training for dual BA, BA and 3-academic-year school students; 3)secondary education. The library and information science now taught in China can be classifiedinto 7 subjects: library science, information science, archives, scientific arc-hives, social information studies, book publishing and distributing, archivalpreservation. In order to help the students to be qualified for the new society, the futurecurriculum ought to integrate the traditional skills with modern technologycovering the following aspects: history and future, users and the use of in- formation, production and dissemination of information, recording and describing of information, information retrieval, information transfer, informationhandling, and processing, technology of communication, management, researchmethodology.