On October 20, 2024, Director Chen Chao met with Tsypkin Denis, Director of the Russian State Library, and Bychko Sergei, Head of the Asian and African Documents Department at the Russian State Library, at the Shanghai Library East.
Both parties looked forward to expanding their cooperation beyond the existing "Window of Shanghai" to include professional library fields such as academic exchanges, ancient book restoration, and the exchange of special collections. They discussed the possibilities for mutual professional and personnel exchanges. In addition, both sides recommended their libraries' unique digital and manuscript collections, with particular mention of the distribution of Marx and Engels' manuscripts in Russia. Director Chen also accompanied the foreign delegation on a tour of the Shanghai Library East.
Also present at the meeting were Tang Huirong, Director of the Shanghai Audio-Visual Archive, Jiang Chunliu, Director of the Oral History Office at the Shanghai Audio-Visual Archive, Wang Min, Director of the Research and Editorial Department at the Shanghai Audio-Visual Archive, as well as some staff members from the Cooperation and Exchange Office, Digital Resources Center, Information Consulting Center, and Reading Promotion Center of the Shanghai Library.