China publishing Group is a national large-scale publishing institution, established on April 9, 2002. On March 25 2004, the State Council authorizes the establishment of China Publishing Group Corporation, which exercises the rights of a contributor over its member units and assumes the responsibility for maintaining and increasing the value of the State-owned assets.

China Publishing Group has 26 publishing units (including their subsidiaries), 3 large-scale distribution (import & export) institutions, 220 domestic chain-bookstores and big marketplaces and 23 overseas chain-bookstores and offices. While focusing on production and marketing of publications, the Group's businesses include publishing and marketing, chain-operation, import & export, copyright trade, printing and reproduction, information technology service, scientific research and development as well as fund-raising. Every year, the Group publishes more than 6,500 titles of books, 1,500 types of audio-video products and electronic publications, 44 kinds of journals and 3 newspapers, with the copyright trade of over 2,000 titles of books and journals completed and more than 200,000 sorts of different publications imported and exported.

The Group's strategic goal of is to develop into an important base for production, publication, import & export of the publications of China, an important window for Sino-foreign cultural exchanges, and a large-scale cultural enterprise boasting all sorts of publications, fine works, a powerful team of professionals and a great economic benefit, which is not only full of internal vigor but also of international competitiveness.