The major of layout editing and proofreading aims to cultivate applied professional and technical personnel facing the front line of publishing editing and proofreading. Through studying in school, students can master the basic knowledge and theory of editing and proofreading workflow, editing and proofreading technology, typesetting technology and so on, and skillfully carry out editing and proofreading practice. Knowledge of editing and publishing theory, such as picture book publishing process, book quality management regulations, publication market management, etc. Master a variety of typesetting software for books, newspapers and periodicals, such as Founder Tengfei and Founder Book Edition, and be proficient in using computer to typeset books and periodicals; Master modern proofreading knowledge, apply modern proofreading technology, proofread books, newspapers and periodicals, review publications and make publication errata; Have good aesthetic knowledge, understand basic aesthetic knowledge and application such as color, artistic words and composition.

At present, the cultural and creative industry has been paid more and more attention and has been greatly developed. As the development of cultural products, layout editing and proofreading are essential for cultural and creative industries. Because this major is a major that integrates proofreading, editing, publishing and layout design, talents with these three professional knowledge are the talents urgently needed by the cultural publishing products industry. Layout editing and proofreading majors can engage in manuscript editing and proofreading in publishing enterprises, radio stations, TV stations, newspapers and other media institutions. Employment Prospect of Layout Editing Major The cultural market in China has basically formed a cultural market system consisting of book market, audio-visual market, film market, network cultural market, art market and entertainment market. And these market systems need talents in page editing and proofreading. In addition, the most common phenomenon is that some classic works and books are increasingly ignoring and ignoring the verification of sentences and words, and typos and missing words emerge one after another. It is inappropriate for books of natural science majors to have such bad cultural phenomena, not to mention books aimed at promoting China's traditional culture. Therefore, layout editing and proofreading are essential.