A publishing house or publishing house is an organization that points out books, pictures, magazines, newspapers, electronic articles and other copyrighted articles. Such as People's Publishing House, China Agricultural Publishing House and China Forestry Publishing House.
China has a long publishing history.
As early as more than 3,000 years ago, primitive books appeared in the slave society of Yin and Shang Dynasties, and there was editing work in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. At that time, many Confucian classics were compiled and edited. After the invention of block printing in Tang Dynasty, private publishing houses appeared.
Imperial academy and Xingwen Department, official engraving institutions in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, had full-time officials, editors, proofreaders, engravers and printers, which were the embryonic form of the later press and printing bureau.
In the Ming dynasty, the national publishing institutions had carved books in different categories (such as Duchayuan, Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Ritual, Ministry of War and other state organs also managed book engraving); Compared with Song and Yuan Dynasties, local publishing institutions have developed. All provinces have chief secretaries and governors who engrave books, and many prefectures and counties also publish books and local chronicles.