How many publishing houses are there in China?

By the end of 20 18, there were 467 publishing houses in China, among which the famous ones were Science Press, Tsinghua University Press, Machinery Industry Press, Electronic Industry Press, Chemical Industry Press, Construction Industry Press, People's Posts and Telecommunications Press, China Water Conservancy and Hydropower Press, China Electric Power Press and Beijing Science and Technology Press.

Take Science Press as an example: Science Press is the largest comprehensive science and technology publishing institution in China. Founded in August 1954, it was merged by the former Compilation Bureau of China Academy of Sciences and the influential Longmen United Bookstore founded in 1930s. 1August, 993, Longmen Bookstore resumed business.

Next to Huangchenggen Ruins Park, Science Press is an open publishing house with a long history and strong strength, which mainly publishes academic books and periodicals. 1993, Science Press won the title of "National Excellent Publishing House" in the first batch.

In recent years, in order to meet the needs of the socialist market economy, science publishing houses have made major adjustments in organizational structure, topic selection structure, market structure and management mechanism.

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Classification of publishing houses:

1. As far as publishing media are concerned, publishing houses can be divided into book publishing houses, audio-visual products publishing houses (record companies) and magazine publishing houses.

2. In terms of publishing category licensing, publishing houses can be divided into comprehensive publishing houses and professional publishing houses.

3. From the nature of publishing business, publishing houses can be divided into: public welfare publishing houses and business publishing houses.

4. The type, scope and organization of the publishing house. In China, there are central publishing houses and local publishing houses according to their affiliation. According to the business scope, there are comprehensive publishing houses and professional publishing houses. There are many kinds of books published by comprehensive publishing houses, while professional publishing houses are only responsible for editing and publishing books of certain majors and categories.

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