After the cease of Party [see post "Three major reseaons why Han Han’s magazine “Party” was disbanded"], Han Han will act as a “lead author” of a new magazine for the first time. Furthermore, a second volume of his column “Just asking Han Han” in Mengya will also be published. However, Han Han takes a [...]
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“Urgent Notice” on publishing and distribution of teaching materials issued by China’s GAPP
22/08/2011Focusing on the excessive number and low quality of primary and secondary school supplementary teaching materials, GAPP released the “Notice on Further Enhancing the Management of Primary and Secondary School Supplementary Teaching Publications” on August 17th. One day later, an “Urgent Notice” on supervision and implementation was given to localities and departments concerned, setting a [...]
First Educational Journal Reform & Development Summit Forum held (China)
19/08/2011The First Educational Journal Reform & Development Summit Forum was held in Beijing on August 18th. In the center of discussion were issues of quality improvement and digital operation of educational journals as well as the problems with quality and page fees of academic journals. Experts suggest that for an increase in revenue, educational journals [...]
Paper publications remain first choice for reading experience – but losing ground (China)
16/08/2011On August 11th, Shanghai Press and Publication Bureau issued the Report of Shanghai Citizen’s Reading Habits in the New Media Environment (2010-2011). It shows that although new technology changed people’s reading habits, paper publications are still the first choice for in-depth reading. In the survey, 75% people think paper publications provide a better reading experience, [...]
Liu Binjie (GAPP) on the system reform of non-political newspapers and periodicals in China
16/08/2011Liu Binjie, Director of GAPP, recently gave Guangming Daily reporters an interview to express his viewpoints on the system reform of non-political newspapers and periodicals. The preconditions for the system reform of non-political newspapers and periodicals exist Non-political newspapers and periodicals play an important role in cultural propaganda, thus, carrying out the reform to speed [...]
Baidu + Fanshu.com: new digital book market monopoly on the horizon in China?
11/08/2011Two recent events caused a wake-up call for online booksellers in China, who had felt save from the uncertain future of physical bookstores: Online bookstore Jingdong Mall supposedly paid around 10 million RMB for exclusive debut rights to Annie Baobei‘s new novel. [As mentioned on her blog, "Spring Feast" -my translation of 春宴- was available [...]
Microblog post starts rumor about high salaries for China’s fashion magazine editors
08/08/2011An entry on a Weibo microblog supposedly uncovered that editors-in-chief at fashion magazines in China enjoy a salary of up to several million RMB, causing intensive commenting. Among others, the post mentioned “VOUGE” magazine editor: annual salary of four million RMB plus monthly housing supplement 30,000 RMB; “GQ” magazine editor: annual salary of one million [...]
Reform of China’s news and publishing industry: more hard work and central guidance needed
02/08/2011China’s system reform of its news and publishing industry was at the center of attention at the recently held 2011 National Press and Publication Bureau Secretary Forum [Note: a conference of heads of province and city Administrations of Press and Publication]. Three “key phrases” illustrate the current situation: Key Phrase One: Deepening the system reform [...]
A new scientific publishing “aircraft carrier”: China Science and Technology Media Group
25/07/2011On July 19th, China Science and Technology Media Group Co.,Ltd. and its subsidiary China Science and Technology Media Corp. were established. Previously, China Publishing Group and China Education Media Group had been set up as national “aircraft carriers” (=national champions). China Science and Technology Media Group will integrate scientific publishing resources of the Chinese Academy [...]
China’s “2010 Analysis Report of the News and Publishing Industry” released: Digital publishing profit up 40%
21/07/2011GAPP released the ”2010 Analysis Report of the News and Publishing Industry” on the opening day of the National Press and Publication Bureau Secretary Forum yesterday. The report states that overall, the industry showed fast, stable and healthy development momentum, with printing and reproduction still the mainstay (817 billion RMB total output). Industry-wide data: Total output: 1269 [...]
Educational publishing in China: Supplementary newspapers and periodicals to be brought into line
14/07/2011Currently, there are over 140 kinds of supplementary educational newspapers and periodicals published in China, with some ignoring laws and regulations. Major problems include: one license number is used for multiple publications, with many supplementary educational newspapers offering more than ten different versions, some even more than one hundred, low-price, low-quality publications hurt education as [...]
Three US publishing groups to support China’s publishing overseas market expansion
13/07/2011In order to speed up the pace of “going out”, GAPP signed Memorandums of Cooperation with Condé Nast, National Geographic and IDG during GAPP Vice Director Jiang Jianguo’ visit to the USA. According to the memorandum, GAPP will support the overseas promotion and distribution of Chinese journals through a cooperation with Condé Nast. Through product, [...]
China’s “Digest” magazine relaunched – copyright agreements with foreign media
05/07/2011Digest, a magazine compiling overseas news and information, has a history of thirty years and was winner of the National Social Science Journal Top 100 for 3 years and National Journal Prize nominee for 2 years. The relaunched magazine puts the focus on finance and current politics, but also treats science and technology development and [...]
China’s Central Committee and GAPP emphasize reform of non-political newspapers and periodicals
04/07/2011On June 29, the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee and the General Administration of Press and Publication held a videoconference on deepening the reform of non-political newspapers and periodicals in Beijing. Some key points were emphasized in the videoconference : Forming systems and mechanisms which are helpful for the scientific development of the [...]
China’s Times Publishing Group enters digital publishing business with “Times E-Blog”
01/07/2011Times E-Blog, an omni-media digital publishing platform of Times Publishing Group developed by its subsidiary Anhui Higher Education Press, was officially launched on June 28th, meaning its digital publishing business is entering the operational phase. The platform belongs to a list of key reform and development projects during the 12th Five-year plan. Its operation model [...]
Restructuring: Four key media groups established in Guizhou Province (China)
30/06/2011On June 26th, four key media groups were officially established in Guizhou province, meaning the cultural system reform of Guizhou Province has reached a new stage: Guizhou Daily Group Media Co., Guizhou Radio, Film & Television Media Group Co., Contemporary Guizhou Periodical Media Group Co., Guizhou Culture & Performance Group Co. Source: Four key cultural [...]
Literature magazines in China delaying author’s remuneration
27/06/2011Recently, the case of Yanhe literature magazine delaying author’s remuneration attracted great attention. In general, literature magazines should pay remuneration within one month after the work is published, however, delaying the payment has become a common problem now. According to an estimate, 25% of literature magazines can’t pay author fees on time. Yanhe isn’t a [...]
Male fashion magazines in China
23/06/2011ZhiZu GQ Style, a male fashion magazine, was launched in April, attracting attention to the male fashion market in China. Most of China’s male fashion magazines are making efforts to enter the mainstream media market. The success of such magazines as ZhiZu GQ Style and Ruishi Elle Men is prove that men in China have [...]
China Publishing Blue Book: Traditional publishing practitioners don’t need to worry about their future
22/06/2011With the rapid development of digital media, many practitioners in traditional publishing begin to worry about the future. However, the release of the “2010-2011 Development Report on China’s Publishing Industry (China Publishing Blue Book)” may relieve their anxiety. The report summarized major changes of China’s publishing industry in 2010. Among them, the upgrade of traditional [...]
China Publishing Blue Book: six development trends in 2011
21/06/2011The “2010-2011 Development Report on China’s Publishing Industry (China Publishing Blue Book)” has been released. According to the report’s analysis, the development of China’s publishing industry will show six trends in 2011: Consumer publications will emerge. More ventures between central and local publishing groups. Capital operation of publishing enterprises will focus on new media. Digital [...]
China Publishing Blue Book: 5 kinds of publications in center of market attention
21/06/2011As already mentioned in China Publishing Blue Book: six development trends in 2011, the “2010-2011 Development Report on China’s Publishing Industry (China Publishing Blue Book)” has been released. According to the report, five kinds of publications will be paid great attention to by the market in 2011: Publications that reflect the core values of socialism and [...]
Li Dongdong: Speeding up China’s reform and development of newspapers and periodicals
20/06/2011The 2011 China Press Executive Symposium was held at the end of last week in Hangzhou under the title “The way to transform & upgrade China’s newspaper groups” [see: "First day of the 2011 China Press Executive Symposium"]. In a policy speech, GAPP Vice-Director Li Dongdong stressed the importance of speeding up the complete tranformation [...]
People’s Daily: seven countermeasures against paid publishing of academic papers in China
16/06/2011In recent years, the problems of an unsound system and unscientific standards and methods for the evaluation of academic papers in China’s academic circles have caused widespread public concern. To eliminate the paid-publishing phenomenon, a more scientific academic evaluation mechanism should be established: Comprehensive treatment of the “paper economy”, such as an internet management department [...]
Private capital for China’s non-political newspapers and periodicals?
15/06/2011In 2011, 5000 non-political newspapers and periodicals are carrying out the full transformation to enterprises. Two of the major problems in this reform process are the high conversion cost for transferring staff’s roles (e.g., Electrical Business News still needs to pay for personnel pensions after the system reform) and the difficulty in rebuilding the market, [...]
List of China’s 2011 National Publishing Fund Projects released
14/06/2011The 2011 National Publishing Funded Projects list was released by China National Publishing Fund Management Committee: 187 projects from 153 publishing units are funded this year, accounting for 30.4% of all applications. A complete list in Chinese is provided on http://www.chinaxwcb.com/2011-06/10/content_222694.htm. Source: List of 2011 National Publishing Funded Projects published (in Chinese) Also see these [...]
Chinese version of “The Oncologist” launched
08/06/2011With increasing demand for tumor treatment, multinational foreign companies accelerate their pace of entering China’s market. The Chinese version of “The Oncologist” was launched to also serve this market. Since May 2011, 10,000 professional members of the Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology will receive the Chinese translation every month. Source: Foreign tumor journal launched Chinese [...]
5% of Beijing’s periodicals and newspapers did not pass inspection
07/06/2011According to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Press and Publication, this year 3,005 news and periodicals will have to pass the Annual Inspection of Newspaper and Periodical Publishing Houses. With roughly 200 publications not yet inspected, 2732 passed while 20 newspapers and 118 periodicals are still “in suspension” because of exceeding their scope of business, [...]
How China’s literary newspapers and periodicals celebrate the Party’s 90th birthday
03/06/2011With the upcoming 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, many literature newspapers and periodicals begin to celebrate the important day in various ways, including soliciting essays, establishing special columns and issues, etc. As examples, Literature and Art News and China Modern Literature Museum jointly launch the new column “Party members among [...]
GAPP recommends 25 excellent children’s newspapers & periodicals (China)
02/06/2011On the occasion of Children’s Day (June 1st), the General Administration of Press and Publication released the 2011 List of Recommended Excellent Children’s Newspapers and Periodicals. Five newspapers and twenty periodicals were recommended, e.g. Henan Education Newspaper and Periodical Publishing House’s “Newspaper for Primary School Students” and Hubei Education Newspaper and Periodical Media Company’s “Pupil’s [...]
First High-Quality Periodical Expo held in Changchun (China)
31/05/2011The first High-Quality Periodical Expo will be held during the 2011 China Changchun Book Fair 01-09 June. 65 selected periodicals of Jilin province will be exhibited at the fair. As market competition intensifies, the selected journals make great effort to improve their quality, resulting in continuously increasing circulation. Some newly-founded periodical have grown into new [...]
A spotlight on how restructuring of newspapers and periodicals changes China’s publishing industry
30/05/2011Shao Mingyi, Vice-Director of Hubei Press and Publication Bureau, stated that the Bureau has so far repositioned 126 kinds of newspapers and periodicals, and 86 of them have been transferred between publishing groups. The reform of newspapers and periodicals in Hubei can be used as a reference for other provinces. Main characteristics: Continuous structural adjustment [...]
People’s Daily: It’s time to tackle “paid papers” in China’s magazines and newspapers
26/05/2011Nowadays in China, there is a big market for publishing of papers. For job title assessment, graduation dissertation, promotion, etc., one needs to publish papers in journals or newspapers. Due to the management system reform, publishing houses operate independently and assume sole responsibility for their profits or losses, so “page business” and paid papers emerged. [...]
China’s strongest journal brands
26/05/2011China’s strongest journal brands, as mentioned in the context of the “Chinese Government Award for Publishing” for journals in a qikan.org article: Reader: Mind reader As a mass magazine, Reader accounts for a 3.3% shares in the domestic magazine market. Its success can be attributed to their efforts to integrate diversified culture. Furthermore, the magazine does [...]
Survey on attitudes towards China’s literature awards
25/05/2011Recently, a survey on the attitudes to literature awards was undertaken among postgraduates of People’s University of China: Most interviewees had doubts on the selection of literature awards, and 73% of them thought that a basic common consensus can hardly be formed. National-class awards such as the Maodun Literature Award have high popularity and big [...]
10 measures for China’s publishing distribution industry in the next five years
24/05/2011[Note: This list was published in Jiefang Daily without mention of any specific event.] Deepen the distribution system reform to develop profitable enterprises, focusing on the introduction of strategic investors, listing & financing, M&A etc. Integrate logistics resources to improve operational efficiency, focusing on the cross-regional cooperation of logistics systems, the establishment of logistics centers [...]
iPad in China shocks hardware makers but promotes digital content
24/05/2011Since May 6th, Apple’s iPad 2 is being sold China, resulting in a rapid drop in sales for many Chinese e-readers. As an example, hardware make Hanvon suffered a loss of more than 46 million RMB in the first quarter. [Also see previous posts: "Hanvon Technology: a closer look at its challenges."] On the other [...]
Forbes, The Economist, Bloomberg: Business magazines eye China growth
19/05/2011In the long article “Business magazines eye China growth“, China Daily describes the different roads into China being taken by foreign business magazine publishers now and in the future – and throws Elle China into the basket for good measure.
Future development of home design and decoration magazines in China
19/05/2011Andi AD , the fourth publication of Condé Nast in China, was published in April (take a look inside at “Andi AD first issue’s wonderful introduction: one family, one world“), following the lead of Ruili Home Design and ELLE Home Gallery, attracting attention to design and home decoration magazines. Small circle, big goal? Design magazine [...]
Talent drifting back to traditional media in China
18/05/2011Around 2006, many talents in traditional media joined emerging media because of Web2.0′s flourishing. With the on-going media restructuring and integration, more and more talents are gradually flowing back to traditional media. A management and business talents shortage is acutely felt in periodical new media, especially talents combining both print media and Internet experience. Most [...]
Restructuring of China’s publishing industry: More Sino-foreign magazine partnerships
17/05/2011China Daily states in its article “Magazines seek new revenues“: “Consolidation in China’s publishing industry, stemming from a gradual reduction in funding by the central government, will encourage more licensing partnerships between foreign-owned magazines and Chinese media houses.”
Rumor: China’s “Popular Cinema” magazine ceasing publication
17/05/2011The rumor that well-known magazine “Popular Cinema” will cease publication appeared on film star Liu Xiaoqing’s microblog, and an editor of the magazine, Zhou Yanming, disclosed that it suffers from poor circulation, has no own president and neither circulation nor advertising department. The bankruptcy rumor has been refuted by a company spokesperson. However, the well-known [...]
Problems with the reform of newspapers and periodicals in China
12/05/2011Recently, Liu Binjie, Director of GAPP, expressed that 5,000 non-political newspapers and periodicals will carry out the transformation to enterprises in 2011, but many difficulties will have to be solved in the process of system reform. In this opinion piece, several aspects are highlighted: 60%-70% of newspapers and periodicals are running losses, so how to [...]
Academic publishing: Biochemical Journal opens Editorial Office in China
11/05/2011As stated in the press release of Biochemical Journal (PDF), “This new office provides authors in China an opportunity to submit their papers directly in order to receive a faster, more supportive service.” Comment: So the American Institute of Physics cooperates with a local editing service partner (see previous post “Academic publishing – international editing [...]
Online magazines: China’s Internet giants set up digital journal platforms
11/05/2011Taohua Net launched its digital magazines officially in April, furthermore, Baidu Library, Sohu News Express and Xunlei also entered the digital journal market. Mobile Internet Strategy The goal of Taohua Net is to create China’s leading anti-piracy digital exchange platform. Digital content is an important part of its mobile Internet strategy, so Taohua and Taobao [...]
GAPP: Publishing sector restructuring won’t mean closures
10/05/2011As China Daily reports in its article “Publishing sector restructuring won’t mean closures“, the merger of small publishers into larger groups will not lead to a decrease in the number of newspapers and periodicals, although “60 to 70 percent of non-political newspapers and periodicals are running a deficit” and “50 to 60 percent of publishing [...]
Next step in restructuring: non-current affairs publications – China Press and Publishing Media Group established
10/05/2011With a ceremony in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Press and Publishing Media Group was founded on 8th May as one of the first non-current affairs newspaper units to be restructured according to policies for the 12th five-year period. China Press and Publishing Media Group consists of one newspaper, two magazines, [...]
Twittered: Axel Springer converts AUTO BILD activities in China into license agreement with Titan Media Group
10/05/2011Since it’s a German company, a simple press release makes it into the blog (via an initial Tweet): Axel Springer converts Chinese activities into license agreement with Titan Media Group. Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/weishutong
