Abstract: This paper systematically sums up the achievements of ancient books protection work in Xinjiang in the twelfth Five-Year - Plan period, analyzes the existing problems, from giving full play to the ancient books protection center of the autonomous region functions, to carry out a comprehensive census collection of ancient books in six aspects, puts forward the ideas of the Xinjiang ancient books protection work in the thirteen Five-Year - Plan period.

Key words: thirteenth Five-Year - Plan period; Xinjiang; ancient books protection