Xinhua Bookstore belongs to an enterprise. Joint-stock state-owned enterprises, with state-owned capital as the main component and state holding, are similar to the national name of China Mobile. They should belong to private enterprises, but they are still state-owned.

Xinhua Bookstore is a book distribution enterprise in China, with distribution outlets all over the country. Is a state-owned chain bookstore, mainly engaged in all kinds of books, stationery and other related products. Some branches use robots and self-help books to provide consumers with new ways to buy books.

State-owned book publishing enterprises in People's Republic of China (PRC) and China are affiliated to Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and China Publishing Group. They are the official bookstores of the country and one of the publicity and sales offices of national publications. Xinhua Bookstore Head Office was directly led by the Central Party Newspaper Committee, the Central Publishing Committee, the Central Publishing Bureau, Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, the State Publishing Bureau, the Ministry of Culture, the State Publishing Bureau and the State Press and Publication Administration in different periods.

In April 2002, according to the strategic deployment of the central cultural system reform, Xinhua Bookstore Corporation became one of the important members of China Publishing Group 12. Its distribution outlets are all over the country, and the management organization is Xinhua Bookstore Head Office.