People's Education Publishing House, founded in 1950, is a large-scale professional publishing house under the Ministry of Education, mainly engaged in the research/compilation/editing/publishing and distribution of basic education textbooks and other types of textbooks and educational books at all levels

The People's Education Publishing House is a large-scale professional publishing house affiliated to the Ministry of Education, mainly engaged in the research, compilation, editing, publishing and distribution of basic education textbooks and other textbooks and educational books at all levels. The People's Education Publishing House was established on December 1, 1950, and Comrade Mao Zedong inscribed the name of the publishing house. The first president and editor-in-chief was Mr. Ye Shengtao, a famous writer, educator and publisher in China.

In order to strengthen the research of basic education curriculum and textbooks, in 1983, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the Institute of Curriculum and Textbooks was established, which was co-located with the People's Education Publishing House, and Comrade Deng Xiaoping inscribed the name of the institute. Over the past 20 years, the Institute of Curriculum and Textbooks has undertaken more than 20 key projects of the National Education Science Planning and the Ministry of Education, and has conducted in-depth and systematic research on basic education curriculum, textbooks and teaching methods, which has provided a strong guarantee for comprehensively improving the quality of textbooks and books of the People's Education Edition.

In December 2010 and March 2011, China Education Publishing & Media Group Co., Ltd. and China Education Publishing & Media Co., Ltd. were established successively, and People's Education Publishing House became a core member.

Since its establishment, the People's Education Publishing House, under the leadership of the Party Group of the Ministry of Education, has presided over or participated in the formulation of the syllabus of all subjects in primary and secondary schools before 2000. According to the needs of China's educational reform and development, it has researched, compiled and published 10 sets of national primary and secondary school textbooks. It has published more than 40,000 publications of various kinds, with a circulation of more than 60 billion copies.

The People's Education Publishing House has more than 1,500 employees, including more than 370 people in the headquarters of the publishing house, which is mainly engaged in researching, compiling and editing primary and secondary school textbooks. In the headquarters, there are 44 doctors (including 4 postdoctoral fellows) and 233 master's students and equivalent academic qualifications. Among the textbook compilers, 169 have senior professional and technical positions. As the "national team" and "professional team" for the compilation of primary and secondary school textbooks in China, the People's Education Publishing House has a complete editorial organization, with a total of 22 editorial departments in politics, Chinese, mathematics, foreign languages, etc. The Library of the People's Education Publishing House is the center of primary and secondary school textbooks and materials in China, with a rich collection of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign textbooks and other educational literature.

In order to meet the needs of the development of the market economy and the reform of the publishing system, the People's Education Publishing House has carried out connotative expansion around the core business of compiling and publishing primary and secondary school textbooks, and has successively set up a number of socially-affiliated enterprises. Among them, the People's Education Textbook Center is mainly responsible for the publishing and distribution business of the People's Education Publishing House; The People's Education Electronic Audio-Visual Publishing House is mainly responsible for the editing, production, publication and distribution of electronic audio-visual and other multimedia publications of the People's Education Edition; The printing house of the People's Education Publishing House is mainly responsible for the printing of textbooks and other books; Renjiao.com (www.pep.com.cn) is a well-known educational resource portal in China, which mainly provides education and teaching information, network resources and digital publishing services for teachers, students, parents and other people.

Since the reform and opening up, the People's Education Publishing House has undertaken a number of projects of international organizations such as UNESCO, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNDP and the World Bank for the purpose of promoting the development of educational publishing and enriching publishing resources. It has also carried out extensive exchanges and cooperation with publishing institutions and educational research institutions in more than 20 countries, including Pearson Education Publishing Group, Cengage Learning Asia Pte Ltd., Komura Book Publishing Co., Ltd., SNP Pan Pacific Publishing Co., Ltd., Lingo Media International Group, Western Kentucky University, Morley University, Towson University, York University, Pushkin State Institute of Russian Language and Studies, and Academia Sinica of Korean Studies. Fruitful results have been achieved.

After more than 60 years of development, the People's Education Publishing House has formed an all-round, diversified, serialized and three-dimensional publishing pattern. All-round means that the publications of the People's Education Publishing House cover preschool education, basic education, higher education, teacher education, vocational education, adult education, continuing education, ethnic education, special education, Chinese as a foreign language education and other fields; Diversification refers to the fact that the teaching materials of the same subject have multiple versions, with different styles, reflecting different levels, and meeting different teaching needs; Serialization means that the textbooks of each discipline are based on textbooks, with teaching reference materials, teaching auxiliary materials, teaching aids, etc.; Three-dimensional means that the publication of the people's education version has the form of paper media, electronic audio and video, multimedia and digital publications.

Today, the People's Education Publishing House has become the construction base of primary and secondary school textbooks and educational books in China, forming a unique brand advantage, scientific research advantage, talent advantage, resource advantage and market advantage; It has formed a business pattern with research, compilation, editing, publishing and distribution of primary and secondary school textbooks and other types of textbooks and educational books at all levels as its core business, publishing and printing of paper media books, electronic audio-visual and multimedia products, copyright trade, logistics services for books and related products, digital publishing and services, etc., which has laid a solid foundation for further strengthening and expanding.

Looking back on the past, from learning from foreign experience, researching and compiling national primary and secondary school textbooks, to developing three-dimensional primary and secondary school textbooks, and providing a full set of primary and secondary school textbook solutions, the People's Education Publishing House has witnessed the ups and downs of the development of China's basic education. Looking forward to the future, along with the pace of reform of China's basic education and publishing system, the People's Education Publishing House will make full use of the institutional and financial advantages of China Education Publishing and Media Group Co., Ltd. and China Education Publishing and Media Co., Ltd., and strive to build itself into a first-class and world-renowned publishing institution in China as soon as possible, so as to promote the prosperity of China's educational publishing industry and make greater contributions to the construction of a harmonious socialist society.