This publishing house overcame the limitations of limited production scale, strong locality, narrow subject range and limited circulation, chose the development path of cultural accumulation, devoted itself to the excavation, collation and publication of Yunnan national culture, and published more than 3,000 books on national culture, with more than 500 million words and hundreds of millions of prints.

Among them, key books and large series such as Ashima, Naxi Pictograph Spectrum, Yongning Naxi Mother System, Yunnan Religious Culture Research Series, Dongba Culture Research Series, Dali Culture Research Series, Yi Culture Research Series, and Naxi Dongba Ancient Books Translation Annotations (volume 100) are famous for their large scale.

The whole society has editorial departments of social science, literature and art, culture, history, book engineering, youth books, art binding, and other departments, as well as Everyone magazine, teaching and auxiliary publishing center, Wen Yue Book Publishing Center, Shanghai Yunnan Book Publishing Company, Beijing Yunnan Book Publishing Company and other departments, and has jurisdiction over Yunnan People's Electronic Audio-visual Publishing House.

The scope of book publishing includes social science, history, culture, literature, art, ancient books, reference books, photography, teaching AIDS, audio-visual electronic publications and online publishing materials.