Yang Yanchao consults newspapers in his own folk newspaper-collection office. (China News Agency/Zhai Yujia)

>Edited and translated by Ye Xin, People`s Daily Online

A man named Yang Yanchao in Shijiazhuang, capital city of north China`s Hebei Province, has collected more than 32,000 kinds of over 250,000 newspapers of all times from around the world. He founded the "Yanzhao folk newspaper-collection office" and collected various newspapers including silk newspaper, folding fan newspaper, envelope newspaper and umbrella newspaper etc. Yang aims to build the most professional folk newspaper-collection office in China.