Library collection:

The ILO Beijing Office Information Center/Library provides broad access to information about the ILO and the world of work. Information services are to help you to find the information and materials that meet your needs. Please contact our office for more information.

Available materials include:

ILO publications (monographs, periodicals, working papers, project reports, statistical
tables), videos and CD-ROMs; (ILO publications can be ordered from ILO Geneva through the ILO Beijing Office. Payment can be made in local currency.)

Publications produced in China (including HKSAR and Macao SAR) and Mongolia;

Publications from international organizations.

Information retrieval facilities:

LABORDOC on-line: contains the hold database of ILO Geneva library from 1965 to the present, and is updated quarterly. Users can search by author,, title, subject, country or region, by language and by year of publication.

ILOLEX: Contains the full-text of ILO Conventions and Recommendations and texts of reports on their ratification and application in ILO member States.

Opening hours:
Monday to Friday from 08:30 to 17:00 (except official holidays)

Public information materials (publications and booklets) available free from ILO Beijing Office

The ILO: What it is, What it does (2000, English, 51pp)

World Employment Report 2001: Life at work in the information economy press edition & CD-ROM (January 2001, English)

World Labour Report 2000: Income security and social protection in a changing world press edition (June 2000, English and Chinese)

International Labour Conventions and Recommendations , vol.1 1919-1969 (Chinese, 497pp)

International Labour Conventions and Recommendations , vol.2 1970-1993 (Chinese, 509pp)

Employment-Intensive Infrastructure Programmes: Labour policies and practices (1998, English, 234pp)

Employment-Intensive Infrastructure Programmes: Capacity Building for Contracting in the Construction Sector (1999, English, 224pp)

Gender, Poverty and Employment: turning capabilities into entitlements (1995, English, 70pp)

ILO & Gender Equality at Work: Beijing +5 and beyond (2000, English, 11pp)

Gender: a partnership of equals (2000, English, 115pp)

Generating opportunities for young people: The ILO's decent work agenda (2000, English, 23pp)

World of Work (ILO magazine, English and Chinese)

For more information about ILO information resources and publications, please visit ILO-INFORM website.