The Commercial Press Co., Ltd., founded in 1897 and the official publishing house of Xinhua Dictionary, is a large-scale modern publishing and media enterprise mainly engaged in the printing of reference books in Chinese and foreign languages, translation of academic works, popular science, education and cultural books and economic management books
The Commercial Press is a state-level publishing institution in China, the first modern publishing institution in China, and the most powerful and influential cultural publishing institution in China.
The Commercial Press was founded in Shanghai in 1897 and moved to Beijing in 1954. In 2002, China Publishing Group Corporation was established, and the Commercial Press is one of the member units. In 2011, the Commercial Press was restructured into the Commercial Press Co., Ltd.
For more than a century, the Commercial Press has taken "Enlightening Education and Enlightening the People's Wisdom" as its mission, striving to inherit Chinese culture and actively disseminate new overseas knowledge. Over the past 100 years, it has published more than 50,000 kinds of commercial books, including Ciyuan, Xinhua Dictionary, Modern Chinese Dictionary, Oxford Advanced English-Chinese Dictionary, Chinese Translation World Academic Classics Series, Chinese Modern Academic Classics Series, World Celebrity Biographies Series, as well as English-speaking World, Chinese World World, Chinese World and other magazines. The publication has won the International Platinum Star Quality Award and the National Book Award. "Wenjin Pavilion Siku Quanshu" and "Xinhua Dictionary" were presented to foreign guests and friends as national gifts by party and state leaders. As the winner of the honorary titles of "Top 100 Publishing Houses" and "China Publishing Government Award", Shangshang has a good influence and reputation among readers, and is "a very important cultural and educational institution". The Commercial Press, along with Peking University, is known as the Gemini constellation in the history of modern Chinese culture.
In the new historical period, the Commercial Press takes quality, responsibility, innovation and cooperation as the core values of the enterprise, puts cultural responsibility and pursuit at the top of the core business philosophy of the enterprise, continues to uphold the tenet of "Changming Education, Open People's Wisdom", and takes Chinese and foreign language reference books, academic translations, popular science, education and culture books and economic management books as the four basic content sections, and accelerates the pace of transformation from traditional publishing to digital publishing in the context of the era of all-media publishing. Cross-regional development to maintain and continuously expand the leading position in the domestic industry. Under the guidance of the concepts of "big times", "big ideas" and "big works", the Commercial Press actively participates in the competition of the international publishing market, and strives to become a large-scale modern publishing and media enterprise with profound cultural connotation, outstanding brand influence, distinctive main business characteristics, strong scale and strength, continuous innovation ability and market competitiveness.
We advocate being conscientious publishers:
We are cultural builders, not just businessmen; We advocate seeking truth from facts, not exaggeration and misleading; We advocate social responsibility, not the capture of social wealth; We promote initiative, not stealing the work of others; We nurture brands, not prey.
