The publishing industry continued to develop. In 2005, * * * published 40.4 billion newspapers, 2.75 billion periodicals and 6.4 billion books.
Since 2002, the publishing industry began to integrate, and at present, 55 publishing groups have been established in China. China Publishing Group was established in April 2003. It is composed of well-known commercial press, Zhonghua Bookstore, Sanlian Bookstore and Xinhua Bookstore 12 large enterprises and institutions, China Publishing Foreign Trade Corporation and China Book Import and Export (Group) Company. It integrates publishing and sales of various media publications, chain operation, import and export trade, copyright trade, printing reproduction, information technology services, scientific and technological development and capital operation.
According to China's commitment to join the WTO, in May 2003, the General Administration of Press and Publication promulgated the Measures for the Administration of Foreign-invested Books, Newspapers and Periodicals Distribution Enterprises, which stipulated that foreign businessmen would be allowed to engage in the retail business of books, newspapers and periodicals in the China market from May 1 day. The Regulation on the Establishment of Foreign-invested Wholesale Enterprises for Books, Newspapers and Periodicals was implemented on June 5438+February 1 2004. The Measures also clearly stipulate that the establishment of retail and wholesale enterprises for books, newspapers and periodicals by foreign investors must be approved by the General Administration of Press and Publication. At present, more than 60 foreign-funded enterprises have set up offices in Chinese mainland, and are preparing and applying for investment to set up book and newspaper publishing enterprises.
Books and periodicals
At present, there are 570 publishing houses and 320 audio-visual publishing units in China. The state has planned many key projects of book publishing and set up excellent book awards, which has promoted the development of book industry. The periodical industry is developing at an alarming rate. 1949, there were only 257 periodicals in China, with a print run of 20 million copies, and the average per capita was less than 0. 1 copy; 1979 After the reform and opening up, the total number of periodicals in China has grown to 1470, with a total print run of 1 65438+84 million copies, per capita1book. In 2005, the variety of periodicals reached 9423, with a total print run of 2.75 billion copies, with a per capita of 2. 1 copy.
With the acceleration of social informatization, the electronic publication market has rapidly formed. At present, it has a considerable scale, with more than 2,000 kinds of electronic publications appearing every year.
external publication
China International Publishing Group is a large publishing group that mainly publishes, prints and distributes foreign books and periodicals, and plays a unique role in publishing foreign exchanges and cooperation. The group includes five kinds of paper magazines in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Korean, Japanese, Russian and Chinese-Beijing Review, China Today, China Pictorial, People's China, China and several Chinese websites. Seven publishing houses, including foreign languages press and New World Publishing House, publish 1 0,000 books with different themes in nearly 20 foreign languages every year and distribute them to more than10.90 countries and regions, which fully show the face of China to the world and play an important role in communicating with world civilization. China International Book Trading Company, a subsidiary of the Group, distributes various books and periodicals to more than 80 countries and regions, and often holds China Book Fair in some of them.
Wuzhou Communication Center is a non-governmental international communication organization that mainly produces multilingual audio-visual products (including movies and television) and written publications. Since the establishment of 1993, the center has launched hundreds of hours of film and television programs and hundreds of books every year, which have been distributed to more than 50 countries and regions in the world. The content of the communication is mainly to introduce the basic situation of China, promote Chinese culture, reflect the process of China's reform, opening up and modernization, answer the focus of international public opinion, and show the customs of China.
China Internet News Center is the most authoritative, concentrated and abundant information website introducing China on the Internet. It opened in the early morning of 1 997 65438+1October1,and more than 90% of the audience came from abroad.
-"Understanding China"
(Wuzhou Communication Center/Beijing Wuzhou Fan Hua Network Information Technology Co., Ltd.)