The 23-year-old Shanghai Book City on Fuzhou Road in Huangpu District will say goodbye to local readers this week as it shuts shop for a renovation which will last more than a year.

The city's largest bookstore is expected to reopen in 2023 with a chic, new-style look, catering to young readers' tastes with more services.

During the revamp, it will move more than 30,000 types of books, mainly those on social sciences, literature, textbooks and reference books, to the nearly 1,500-square-meter sunken plaza at 96 Plaza shopping center.