China International Book Trading Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "CIBTC") is affiliated to China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration (China International Communication Group). It is China's first book import and export organization and one of China's largest professional book and periodical import and export companies. It was established on December 1, 1949, named "International Bookstore", and famous writer, Mr. Guo Moruo, wrote the name of the store; in January 1964, the book and periodical import and export business was separated and renamed "China International Bookstore", specializing in export business; in January 1981, the import business was resumed; in September 1983, with the development of international trade, it was renamed "China International Book Trading Corporation"; in May 2006, it formed a cultural enterprise group with Beijing Foreign Languages Printing Factory and Beijing Foreign Languages Publishing Paper Company; in September 2010, it was transformed from a public institution into an enterprise and renamed "China International Book Trading Co., Ltd."
CIBTC has pioneered and developed the foreign trade of books in New China. Over the past 70 years, it has distributed nearly 2 billion Chinese books and periodicals in more than 40 languages to more than 180 countries and regions around the world, and has held and participated in thousands of international book fairs in more than 100 countries and regions. CIBTC has created several firsts in China's book and periodical import and export business: the first to represent New China in international book fairs; the first to cooperate with overseas peers to publish and distribute books; the first to set up branches abroad; the first to use computer management systems in the Chinese industry; the first to access the international Internet to introduce Chinese publications in the Chinese industry, etc. CIBTC has now developed into a large-scale state-owned comprehensive cultural enterprise group with book and periodical import and export as its core, and its business scope covers paper management, warehousing and logistics, property management, e-commerce, capital operation, cultural communication, exhibitions and copyright transactions. CIBTC's business network covers more than 180 countries and regions, and maintains business relations with more than 10,000 overseas distribution agencies, bookstores, publishers and millions of readers. The export of books and periodicals has always been in a leading position in the country.
Publishing House of Electronics Industry
Publishing House of Electronics Industry has studied and implemented Xi Jinping''s cultural thought in depth and continuously promoted the internationalization of publishing. As one of the earliest publishing houses in China to carry out copyright trade with foreign organizations, PHEI has always adhered to the internationalization strategy, focused on exploring the domestic and international markets, and cooperated with world-famous publishing houses in copyright trade; it has been awarded the titles of "Advanced Publishing House in National Book Copyright Trade" and "Company of National Science and Technology Publishing House ''Going Global''". It has been listed as"Top 100 Most Influential Publishing House of Overseas Libraries Collection" for ten consecutive years and many of its books have been honored with the national excellent book awards for imported and exported publications.
PHEI values excellent copyright resources, strengthens international cooperation in science and technology, education, humanities, social sciences, children''s and other fields, and actively participates in major international book fairs, and has maintained partnerships with more than 300 publishing companies in more than 35 countries or regions. Our copyright import partners include Pearson Education, John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill Education, Elsevier, Cengage Learning, Springer Nature, and many other famous international publishers, and our international influence is constantly increasing.
PHEI actively implements the development strategy of "going out" and continuously exports its products to the international market. PHEI has exported more than 1,800 copyrights in nearly 20 languages, covering science and technology, economics and management and children''s books, etc. Meanwhile, it has established strategic cooperation with publishing organizations in Europe, America and countries along the "Belt and Road" to promote co-publishing, forming a good cooperative partnership, and more than 30 kinds of high-quality books have been selected for national translation subsidy projects.
PHEI will make continuous progress towards internationalization of communication methods, internationalization of publishing resources and internationalization of industrial stories, so as to make greater contributions to the continuous promotion of cultural self-confidence and self-improvement, spreading Chinese voices, and enhancing the influence of the communication power of Chinese civilization.