At the 18th Beijing International Book Fair, the Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press launched new digital products [see post "Roads of China’s digital publishing export"] : a digital reading pen for foreign languages “Wai Yantong” [probably Viaton], Internet teaching materials and a collaborative translation platform. The digital reading pen will be promoted in primary [...]
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Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press: on digital road to educational service provider (China)
08/09/2011Fewer pupils: Anhui New Media textbook sales down, books up (China)
30/08/2011In the first half of 2011, Anhui New Media generated 1.32 billion RMB revenue. Book sales accounted for 610 million RMB, 29.5% more than last year, and textbooks for 516 million RMB, -4.7% y-o-y. With fewer primary school students, textbook revenue will continue to fall. Source: Anhui New Media got 1.32 billion RMB revenue at [...]
“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 [...]
Educational book publishing in China to be better regulated
18/08/2011Focusing on the disorderly market for supplementary teaching material in education, Liu Binjie indicated during the recent 2011 National Press and Publication Bureau Secretary Forum that GAPP will make efforts to solve the problem this year with the upcoming “Notice on Further Enhancing the Management of Primary and Secondary School Supplementary Teaching Publications”. Furthermore, GAPP [...]
Educational publishing in China: Will e-schoolbag replace 36 billion textbooks?
15/08/2011In the 12th Five-year plan for China’s press and publishing industry, the “e-schoolbag” is described as a combination of mobile terminals, e-education service platforms and systems for resource processing and publishing of digital education content in a network environment. In the past several years, reading habits in China changed drastically. According to the 8th National [...]
Digital media in education: “e-schoolbag” project extended in China
04/08/2011On July 27th, the Municipal Education Commission, Municipal Press and Publication Bureau and Hongkou District government in Shanghai signed the Strategic Cooperation Agreement on Promoting a Digital Learning Environment to promote the “e-schoolbag” project in Shanghai’s Hongkou District. In the first half of this year, eight schools in the district have successfully conducted the pilot [...]
Analysis of China’s supplementary teaching material market: Problems and solutions
03/08/2011As briefly mentioned in previous posts (see “Publishing and distribution of educational publications in China – fighting piracy and corruption“), China’s supplementary teaching material market is rife with problems. This article by the Private Book Industry Development Research Center of the Press and Publication Research Institute spotlights problems and solutions. Problems: Compared with the situation in [...]
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 [...]
People’s Education Press signs distribution agreement
16/06/2011Hebei Distribution Group, Heilongjiang Publishing Group and Hunan Tianzhou Book Distribution Corporation signed a cooperation agreement on “Sure to Win” with People’s Education Press. As a set of teaching reference books, “Sure to Win” focuses on the different review phases for the college entrance examination, covering nine subjects. Source: Three publishing units sign the distribution [...]
Publishing and distribution of educational publications in China – fighting piracy and corruption
30/05/2011According to the Working Meeting on Resisting Unreasonable Charges in Education held on May 26th, China’s General Administration of Press and Publication will focus on cleaning scattered and excess material and fighting against pirated and illegal publications in 2011 in order to further standardize publishing and distribution of teaching materials. Source: GAPP: priorities for teaching [...]
“Learning Newspaper for Primary School Students” participated at UN Chinese Day
04/05/2011Recently, Learning Newspaper for Primary School Students (Xiaoxuesheng xuexibao) was invited to the 2nd UN Chinese Day Activity at UN headquarters in New York. The newspaper has more than three million young readers in China. Source: Learning Newspaper for Primary School Students attended the UN Chinese Day (in Chinese)
Educational publishing in China: media group promotes “Quality Year”
06/04/2011Fenghuang Publishing Media Group held its Educational Publishing Symposium in the last week of March. In his speech, Board Chairman of the group Tan Yue pointed out that units at all levels should develop educational publishing under the aspects of systems, markets, products, talent teams, digitalization, services and reward & punishment. He also emphasized the [...]
Reform in China’s publishing industry: situation and development
28/12/2010Recently, China Print and Publishing Journal interviewed Wang Guike, Chairman of Guangdong Province Publishing Group as well as Southern Publishing Media Co., Ltd. Wang introduced the current reform situation and described the next development plans: Finishing shareholding system reform and preparing listing – Identifying property rights – Checking capital – Standardizing operations – Cultivating professional [...]
