An important project for China’s publishing industry was recently launched, the “Chinese Character Bank”. This database will include many traditional Chinese characters for the first time, thus meeting the needs of expression, transmission and storage on computers. The project is already in R&D and will be finished in five years. Experts state that the scope [...]
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“Chinese Character Bank” project launched
08/09/20118th Mao Dun Literature Prize in China: List of the five winners
26/08/2011On August 20th, the list of the 8th Mao Dun Literature Prize winners was released [also see "Mao Dun Literature Prize: China’s publishing houses cautious about reprinting award winners"]. The prize goes to 5 works (Update: In parentheses I’ve added the English titles as provided by Paper Republic – as professional translators, they’re more qualified [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
Publishing houses in China to receive larger share of mobile reading cake?
17/08/2011Recently, the “Memorandum of Strategic Cooperation on the Mutual Promotion of Digital Publishing Industry Development” was signed by GAPP and China Mobile. China Mobile has it’s own standard for selecting books and setting prices, so publishing houses have less decision-making rights and receive only 40% of the revenue, which they consider insufficient. To deal with [...]
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 [...]
New regulations on ownership reform for China’s non-political newspapers
12/08/2011Recently, the “Basic Regulations for the Conversion of Non-political Newspapers of Central Department Publishing Units” were released by the Joint Office for Reforming Non-Political Newspaper Publishing Units to steer the reform program. These Regulations are applicable only for publishing units with the status of an independent legal entity. They provide guidance in eight steps: Establish [...]
First “Digital Publishing and Distribution” course established at university in Shanghai (China)
10/08/2011On July 29th, China’s first “key discipline” Digital Publishing and Distribution was established at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST). It is one of the cooperation programs between GAPP and USST to foster inter-disciplinary talents with high ability in both technology and operation to meet the need caused by the restructuring process [...]
Shanghai will strive for 70 billion RMB annual output in Digital Publishing (China)
08/08/2011In 2010, Shanghai’s digital industry achieved sales of more than 22 billion RMB, accounting for 19.9% of the country. As the first national digital publishing base set up three years ago, Shanghai’s Zhangjiang National Digital Publishing Base has attracted 280 enterprises and about 3 billion RMB investment generating total sales revenue of 11 billion RMB. [...]
GAPP’s “Three One-hundred” Original Books campaign to support original publishing (China)
08/08/2011GAPP launched the 3rd “Three One-hundred” Original Books Recommendation Campaign during which 100 works written by Chinese authors and published by Chinese publishing houses in 2008-2010 will be chosen in each of the areas social sciences, natural sciences and art /childrens books. The goal of this campaign is to foster original publishing. Source: “Three One-hundred” [...]
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 [...]
GAPP to support physical bookstores in China
02/08/2011Recently, GAPP provided answers on the hot topic of how to support the development of physical bookstores. Will all physical bookstores that experience difficulty with management receive support? Liu Binjie, Director of GAPP, said that GAPP will take the following policy measures to support special and academic bookstores. Implement the “Notice on Strengthening the Rural [...]
Key tasks of China’s digital publishing industry
01/08/2011In April, GAPP launched the Press and Publishing Industry Development Plan for the 12th-Five Year Plan mentioning seven key tasks which are to be finished in this time period, including “meeting the needs of digitization, informatization and network trends to promote the reform and upgrade of the press and publishing industry”. Since digitalization is the [...]
First bonded warehouse for publications established in China
26/07/2011On July 19th, China’s first bonded warehouse for imported publications was founded by China Publication Import and Export Group. It constitutes a new mechanism for the timely provision of publications needed by domestic users and will raise the efficiency of executing orders and facilitate foreign publishing houses’ expansion into the Chinese market. Furthermore, the bonded [...]
Review for China Precious Ancient Books List started
25/07/2011On July 18th, the review for the 4th edition of the China Precious Ancient Books List and the National Key Unit for Ancient Book Protection started. This year, experts need to review 9,665 ancient books – most of which are damaged – and 24 units applying for the status of National Key Unit for Ancient [...]
China’s Copyright Law to be revised – adjust to digital age
18/07/2011On July 13th, GAPP and China’s National Copyright Administration held the kick-off meeting for the 3rd revision of the Copyright Law, which was initially enacted 20 years ago and since then has been revised twice in 2001 and 2010. Liu Binjie, the Director of GAPP, said that it is important to revise the law in [...]
Liu Binjie(GAPP): Digital publishing integration and business models remain problems (China)
13/07/2011Liu Binjie, Director of GAPP, attended the 4th China Digital Publishing Fair on July 8, focusing on digital publishing issues, such us the integration of satellite digital communication platforms and rural book houses, the current situation of digital content distribution platforms, the development of mobile reading and the digital transformation of traditional publishing institutions. Liu [...]
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, [...]
Digital Publishing in China in the next five years: 6 focal areas of development
12/07/2011At the opening of the Fourth Chinese Digital Publishing Exposition on July 6th at the Beijing International Conference Center, General Adminstration of Press and Publication Vice Director Sun Shoushan gave a speech on “Being Confident and Creative to Accelerate Sustainable Development of Digital Publishing”. Sun stated that in order to raise the share of digital [...]
GAPP establishes strategic cooperation with China Mobile for digital publishing
07/07/2011On July 5th, GAPP and China Mobile signed a “Memorandum of Cooperation on Strategic Development in Digital Publishing”. According to the document, GAPP will cooperate with China Mobile in offering internet technology services and operation control of digital products to publishing houses. A cooperation in digital copyright is also intended in order to launch digital [...]
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 GAPP responds to International Federation of Journalists criticism on blacklists
04/07/2011As mentioned in the previous post “China’s “Economic Observer” stresses importance of investigative journalism“, the Ministry of Health planned “to blacklist journalists who intentionally mislead the public about health concerns”. The International Federation of Journalists recently accused government departments of China of keeping blacklists of journalists. In its response to the issue, GAPP reaffirmed that [...]
China’s ‘Red books’ draw public enthusiasm
22/06/2011“In honor of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the CPC, which falls on July 1, the General Administration of Press and Publication organized a month-long exhibition for these 200 books in 100 bookstores across the nation … Statistics show that the sales volume of the History of the Communist Party of China has [...]
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 [...]
First day of the 2011 China Press Executive Symposium
17/06/2011Under the background of the “Development Plan for the News and Publishing Industry during 12th Five-year Plan Period”, the 2011 China Newspaper Industry (Group) Executive Symposium is being held in Hangzhou June 16-17. This is a brief topical summary of the first day of the meeting, which was hosted by Jiang Jun, Board Chairman of [...]
105 “model units” in Shanghai news and publishing industry (China)
13/06/2011The first ceremony honoring “model units” [to be exact, "model establishment" might be a better translation] in Shanghai’s news publishing industry was held on June 9. The selection reflects certain characteristics: Private enterprises actively took part in the activity. The selected units have strong innovation awareness. National-class and city-level units account for 37%. Source: 105 [...]
A brief summary of the China Publishing (Copyright) Development Forum
31/05/2011With the subject of “Integration and improvement: Realizing win-win in traditional & digital publishing”, the China Publishing (Copyright) Development Forum was held on May 28 in Heilongjiang, consisting of two parts. Yan Xiaohong, Vice-Director of GAPP, hosted the first part, in which policy speeches were given: Liu Binjie, GAPP’s Director, gave a speech on “Speeding [...]
Chongqing invests 3 billion RMB for National Publishing & Media Creative Center (China)
25/05/2011The foundation stone laying ceremony of Chongqing Tianjian Creative (Animation) Industry Base, jointly invested by Chongqing Publishing Group and a Singapore investment consulting company, was held on May 21st. The project is a key cultural industry project in Chongqing, approved by GAPP as National Publishing & Media Creative Area (Center) with a total area of [...]
Digital publishing to account for 25% of China’s press and publication output by 2015
18/05/2011The 7th China Culture Fair – 2011 Digital Publishing High-End Forum was held in Shenzhen. On May 13th, Jiang Jianguo, Deputy Director of General Administration of Press and Publication, gave a keynote speech on Digital Publishing’s New Development and New Opportunity. He stated that during the 12th Five-Year Plan period: The digital publishing industry should [...]
China’s first “100 Excellent Ethnic Books Recommendation” campaign launched
16/05/2011The General Administration of Press and Publication issued a notice concerning the first “100 Excellent Ethnic Books Recommendation” activity, for which application materials should be submitted to nationalities’ publishing houses before May 20th. Eligible books must either have a print-run of more than 2.000 copies if published in one of China’s Ethnic languages or of [...]
GAPP delegation visits Mumbai
12/05/2011A GAPP delegation headed by Vice Director Wu Shulin visited Mumbai, India. On the agenda were a government agreement on cultural cooperation, book publishing exchange and a meeting with the Cambridge University Press branch in India. Source: GAPP delegation visits Mumbai, India (in Chinese)
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 [...]
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 [...]
China’s newspaper circulation increased by eight billion copies in five years
03/05/2011According to the National Culture System Reform Working Meeting, Chinese newspapers developed rapidly during the 11th five-year period (2006-2010) despite the global newspaper industry downturn, with circulation increasing by eight billion copies and advertising revenue ranking first in domestic media. General Administration of Press and Publication Director Liu Binjie said that compared with 2005, the [...]
China’s press and publication industry to grow 19.2% each year until 2015
26/04/2011On April 20th, the 12th Five-Year Development Plan for the Press & Publication Industry was officially released by GAPP. The major development targets of the industry during 2011-2015 are as follows: gross output: +19.2% y-o-y, from 1.22 trillion RMB in 2010 to 2.94 trillion RMB in 2015. book titles: +5.0% y-o-y, from 328,000 books in [...]
China’s Development Plan for the Press and Publication Industry
26/04/2011In an interview, a GAPP official explained the main content of the newly released 12th Five-Year Development Plan: Accelerating transformation of economic development. The transformation of press & publication industry’s development is to be basically completed. The strategic emerging industries such as digital publishing are to reach advanced world levels. More variety of press & [...]
GAPP’s research guidelines for 2011 released (China)
19/04/2011The General Administration of Print and Publications published its Research Guidelines for this year. Study projects are as follows: Reform issues in the news and publishing industry -Obvious problems in the system reform of non-political press units -Solutions for distribution systems of Party newspapers -Models on guiding and regulating non-public capital to join the news [...]
New regulations on online bookstores in China
18/04/2011On April 12th, GAPP published three newly revised regulations: “Publications Market Management Regulations”, “Measures for the Administration of Subscriber Orders for Imported Publications”, and “Administration of Import of Audio and Video Products”. Regarding new clauses on online bookstores, a GAPP Policy and Law Department official said that the approval criteria for online bookstores are adjusted [...]
“China Copyright Yearbook 2010″ published
12/04/2011Compiled by the National Copyright Administration, edited and published by China Renmin University Press and China Renmin University Copyright Trade Base, this only official yearbook provides comprehensive information on China’s copyright creation, utilization, protection and management. Source: “China Copyright Yearbook 2010″ published (in Chinese) Note: Apparently hasn’t made it into the online bookstores yet.
Fuzhou Strait Creative Industry Copyright Fair held (China)
12/04/2011The 2nd Fuzhou Strait Copyright Creative Industry Fair will be held May 18-22 with three sections: Show area for excellent copyright works, including animation, woodcarving arts, original music etc. Sales area of copyright products, selling the creative works from theMainland and Taiwan Negotiation area appraisal, copyright registration etc. Compared with the first fair, more enterprises [...]
GAPP issued “Opinion on Further Improving the Work of Chief Editors of Publishing Houses” (China)
04/04/2011Recently, GAPP issued the “Opinion on Further Improving the Work of Chief Editors of Publishing Houses“, putting forward specific requirements concerning the position, qualification and responsibilities of a Chief Editor for restructured publishing enterprises. Position: All publishing units should establish the post of Chief Editor as the second responsible person (after the Director), as well [...]
GAPP and Commerce Department approve “Regulations on Management of the Publication Market” (China)
04/04/2011In order to regulate the distribution activities of publications as well as the related supervision and management, the General Administration of Press and Publication and the Commerce Department approved the “Regulations on Management of the Publication Market” on March 17 and announced it on March 25. The “Regulations” consists of five chapters with 45 items, [...]
China clarifies rules on Internet distribution of publications
04/04/2011In the article “China clarifies rules on Internet distribution of publications“, China Daily briefly reports on new regulations issued by GAPP: “Agencies or individuals in China are required to have a license to distribute publications through information networks including the Internet” and are forbidden to distribute publications that infringe upon others’ copyrights. If they already [...]
Ancient books lost to foreign countries to “come back” to China
31/03/2011The editing & publishing of ancient books is closely related to China’s economic, political, cultural and social establishment, thus Liu Binjie, GAPP’s Director, expressed his ideas on how to carry out the related tasks during the 12th Five-year Plan period in a policy speech. Liu outlined his thoughts in seven items, the last one being [...]
2011 National Newspapers and Periodicals Management Work Conference held (China)
28/03/2011The 2011 National Newspapers and Periodicals Management Work Conference was held in Haikou March 23-25. Li Dongdong, GAPP’s Deputy Director, attended the conference and gave a policy speech. When addressing the management of newspapers and periodicals in 2011, Li emphasized the following four aspects: Guiding public opinion: Departments at all levels should take positive measures [...]
GAPP repeals 5th batch of press and publishing regulations (China)
21/03/2011To improve the legal establishment of the news publishing industry, GAPP decided to repeal a 5th batch of altogether 161 regulatory files – such as “Notice on Journal Registration Issues”, “Notice on Reform Work in the Book Distribution System “ – in a clean-up move. Some of the documents date back to the mid-fifties. The [...]
News on securities information in China’s print media to be better controlled
14/03/2011On February 25th, GAPP held a meeting to require the newspaper industry to enhance its management of securities information communication. Wang Guoqing, Director of GAPP’s Press Department, indicated that false news about securities and futures has begun to spread to the authoritative traditional media from the Internet. This problem is caused by information asymmetry in [...]
China’s first online digital publishing website for cartoons goes online
13/03/2011Having received the first license for online digital publishing in the cartoon and animation sector from GAPP, 91AC.com went online on March 9th. The site combines digital journals, electronic books and original contributions. Source: Digital publishing online portal 91AC for Chinese-langauge cartoons goes online (in Chinese) See previous posts: National Cartoon Industry Net Launched on [...]
