Beijing Evening News: China Becomes World's Fastest Growing Publishing Market (story in Chinese)

October 7, 2004

An article from the Beijing Evening News carried on the People's Daily website reports that, according to the book "Global Chinese Printing," China has the world's fastest-growing publishing market, with a sales rate increasing at over $300 billion a year. The author of the book, Xin Guangwei, is an employee of the Chinese government's General Adminstration of Press and Publication, which is responsible for book and newspaper censorship in China.