Modern Press, since its establishment in 1980, has always devoted itself to the promotion of Sino foreign culture exchange and development of international publishing corporation foxing its own publishing style characterized with language, literature and art. The Press is the first publishing unit passing the ISO9001 quality system certification in the country. In recent years, it has paid attention to emphasis on the modern feature, and launched a series of books under the Modern brand with these books winning favorable comments from readers the Press was appraised as a Good Publishing House of the Country

There are 8 departments in Modern Press, which include: Book Editorial Department, Periodical Editorial Department, Art and Design Department, General Editorial Department, Distribution Department, Publishing Department, and Financial Department and Modern Chain Stores, with a total staff of 80.

Modern Press has an annual average publication of over 200 new books. Among them, there are not only large scaled picture albums and academic compositions, such as the Long March and the Genealogical Table of Chinese Surnames serial books, but also language tool books, such as Longman Modern English-Chinese Dictionary, as well as a series of popular books, such as Ronald Chu's Urban Life Cartoon series, The Same Song series, Dream Teater series Dream Factory series and Modern. Phoenix series. Several kinds of books nwon national prizes, such as One Hundred Year Cartoons, which has won the National Excellent Art Book Prize.