Time flies. We bid farewell to 2021, a year of hard work and progress, and are heading towards 2022, a year full of hope. At this turn of the year, on behalf of Guangxi Normal University Press Group, I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to the leaders at all levels, authors, readers and people from all walks of life who have long cared for, supported and helped the development of the Group. I also wish to extend my sincere greetings to all our hard-working colleagues at home and abroad!2021 was a milestone in the history of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and our country. The Chinese people celebrated the Centennial birthday of the Communist Party of China and made historic achievements in building a moderately well-off society in an all-round way. 2021 was also a year of great significance in the history of Guangxi Normal University Press, and we ushered in the 35th anniversary of the establishment of the Press. In the past thirty-five years, group after group of publishers of Guangxi Normal University have worked hard to build the Press from an unknown local university press located in the border to an international cultural institution with good influence and reputation at home and abroad, realizing a historic leap. In the face of profound changes unseen in a century, standing at the historical intersection of achieving the Two Centenary Goals, the press staff are embarking on a new journey of high-quality development in the new era with high morale and full confidence.In the past year, under constant influence of the COVID-19 epidemic, the road to global economic recovery has been rough. Although the domestic economy has gradually come out of the trough, the external environment has become increasingly grim, and the downward pressure on the economy has been increasing under a complex and volatile international situation. Under the influence of the economic environment, the publishing industry has experienced slow growth and sluggish recovery, and the impact of the national "double reduction" policy on traditional educational publishing has gradually emerged. At the same time, new technologies such as Internet of Things, blockchain, big data and artificial intelligence have enabled new possibilities for innovation and development in the publishing industry, and the transformation and upgrading of the publishing industry are imminent. Facing the grim situation, we worked hard with firm confidence and composure, and achieved good social and economic benefits.In 2021, we adhered to the general principle of making progress while maintaining stability. While maintaining regular epidemic prevention and control, we concentrated our efforts on promoting reform and development. We have achieved remarkable results in self-innovation and taken a steady and robust pace of development. The Groups Party Committee focused on drawing wisdom and strength from the great journey of the Partys century-long struggle and summing up experience and lessons from the Presss 35 years of development. Adhering to the guidance of Party building, it comprehensively enhanced the Partys leadership, made new progress in Party organization building, and made new strides in the deep integration of Party building and business. The Party building brand of "book pioneer" featuring "Party building + books" has been promoted in depth. The vitality of grassroots Party organizations has been strengthened. The vanguard role of Party members has become more prominent. The role of Party branches as battle fortresses has become increasingly prominent. With the consciousness of facing the problems and the courage of internal self-regulation, the Group has made great efforts to rectify the "chronic problems". We have effectively broken through the "blockage points" and "pain points", promoted the modernization of corporate governance system and governance capacity to a new level, and achieved staged victories in consolidating the foundation, and also significantly improved our ability to prevent and resolve major risks. In the grim situation, we have forged ahead in the face of difficulties. Under the strong leadership of the University’s Party Committee, with the joint efforts of the Groups leadership team and all staff, we have achieved the set targets of 6% increase in annual fixed price and 8% increase in profit. The Group has maintained steady and rapid development, which was not easy to come by but the result of joint efforts of all staff. Here, on behalf of the Groups Party Committee and leadership team, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to all staff!In 2021, we adhered to the strategic policy of "focusing on the main business, deepening education, improving academic capability, and extending development" and the development strategy of "something should be done, and something should not", and achieved fruitful results in promoting the high-quality development of our main publishing business. We won a good many of prizes in the Fifth Government Publishing Award. The Catalogue of the Cover of Old Textbooks in China won the Printing Reproduction Award, which was the first breakthrough of Guangxis publishing and printing industry in this award; the Collection of Rare Ming Poems Collected in Japan and the Compilation of Chinese Translation of Manchu Archives in Xinjiang in Qing Dynasty were both nominated for the Book Award, making Guangxi Normal University Press rank among the top 10 publishers in China in terms of the total number of won book awards in the previous China Publishing Government Awards. The quality of our educational publishing was further improved, with many new national and local characteristics. The textbook Red Culture of Guangxi was fully introduced into the primary and secondary schools. The Zhuang- Chinese Bilingual Early Childhood Curriculum Resources was published as the first of its kind in China. The teaching material Zhuang Language for primary and secondary schools was featured by various highlights. We made great progress in the construction of vocational education teaching materials, achieving significant increase in the market sales and the usage in schools. Our academic publishing strength and brand influence remained at a high level. We had nine projects selected into the special publication planning project for national key publications during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, and the Group was selected as one of the top 20 for influence of overseas collection of Chinese books for eight consecutive years. We made another great achievement in the selection for the "Top 10 Good Books of the Year" in Shenzhen Reading Month, with eight books listed in the top 100 books, including one book in "Top 10 Good Books of the Year" and one book in the "Top 10 Children’s Books of the Year". The Groups Theory of Modernization of National Governance System and Governance Capacity was selected as a project funded by the National Publication Fund, and Media Criticism was newly included in the CSSCI collection. We also made new achievements in thematic publishing, and successfully held the first "Wangdao Publishing Forum", which aroused great attention from the society and won unanimous praise from the academia and the publishing industry. We published a series of excellent thematic books such as Collection of Historical Documents on Xiangjiang Campaign, contributing to the continuation of the communist legacy and the inheritance of the communist gene. We made new progress in the journal section. The View on Publishing and the Planners continued to be selected as Chinese core journals and were included in CSSCI extended edition catalogue; the Collection of Excellent Compositions was selected as a key topic of "Youth Periodicals on Party History" theme propaganda by the Bureau of Publication of Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China; and three journals, including Education Guide, were awarded the ninth Outstanding Journals of Guangxi.In 2021, we took new steps in integrated development by adhering to the development path of "publishing + culture + technology". "The Dunhuang Documents Database" received special support from the National Digitalization Project of Ancient Books in 2021. The "Xiaoshutong" online audio reading platform was selected into the 2021 Publishing Integrated Development Project of the National Press and Publication Administration. The "Book Paradise —— a new reading ecosystem operated based on web traffic" and "Childrens Periodicals Immersive Interactive Content Creation" were selected as innovation cases of deep integrated development of national press and publishing. The integrated development model of "publishing + culture + technology" became increasingly mature, and a new publishing system with knowledge service as the goal and digital information as the carrier took shape at a faster pace.In 2021, we continued promoting mutual development of the domestic and international circles of publishing business, and made new breakthroughs in letting the publishing business "going global". For the fourth time, the Group was awarded the title of "National Key Cultural Export Enterprise" jointly by five ministries and commissions including the Ministry of Commerce and the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China. Meanwhile, a cooperative publishing project of Macao Branch of the Group was selected as "National Key Cultural Export Project". "Art Bridge Space", the first aesthetic composite physical bookstore, was settled in Shanghai as the international art communication brand "Art Bridge" bloomed again. The national reading brand "Duxiu Bookstore” went global as the first overseas store of "Duxiu Bookstore" was built at Confucius Institute at Hanoi University in Vietnam, contributing to the construction of a closer China-ASEAN community with a shared future.In 2021, we adhered to the goal of "corporative development and employee happiness" and made new achievements in building a "happy corporation". We improved the Groups information disclosure system, disclosing important information on corporate development to the employees in a timely manner according to laws and regulations to protect their right to know; organized the implementation of the measure of "Celebrating the New Year Where You Are" during the Spring Festival holiday in 2021, and provided living subsidies for such employees; established a training system for employees as an institutional foundation for their vocational development; bought medical mutual insurance for employees, which further guarantees employees health. Dinner was added in the canteen, flexible work was implemented, and a "home for employees" was built... bit by bit, which enhanced employees sense of acquisition, happiness and security.In 2021, we continued giving back to the society and took new responsibilities in fulfilling the social responsibilities as a state-owned cultural corporation. We successfully held Guilin "Red Research-Study" activity for "Duxiu Class” of Jinxiu Middle School for Nationalities to help rural revitalization with educational assistance; the projects of "Encouraging Library" and "Rural Bookstore” have been expanded in depth, and the "cultural granary" for national reading campaign and rural revitalization has been continuously enriched to donate money and materials to Henan and other disaster-affected areas, fully demonstrating the spirit of solidarity and mutual assistance called "one party is in trouble and all parties support”."We still have a long journey to go, which is fraught with difficulties and requires more efforts". The 35-year-old Guangxi Normal University Press, in its prime, has packed up and set foot on a new journey with its head held high. Looking into 2022, we will stay true to the original aspiration of "publishing good books for the people" and adhere to the objective of "letting people and books meet", increase our confidence in history, and enhance unity & solidarity and struggling spirit. We will fully implement the new development philosophy, build a new pattern of corporate development, concentrate on promoting the high-quality development of the Group, and continue to write a more brilliant new chapter in the great journey of achieving the centenary goal!Finally, I sincerely wish you all good health, successful career, happy life, and all the best in New Year!Guangxi Normal University Press Group Co., LtdHUANG Xuanzhuang Party Secretary and ChairmanJanuary 1st, 2022

Comrades and friends:Today is a day worth celebrating in the history of Guangxi Normal University Press, when we have ushered in the glorious moment - the 35th anniversary of Guangxi Normal University Press. On behalf of all members of the leadership team in Guangxi Normal University Press Group Co., Ltd., I hereby would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the readers and authors who are long concerned with and support Guangxi Normal University Press, the leaders at all levels who are long concerned with and help Guangxi Normal University Press, and the fellow companies, customers and friends who have been going hand in hand with Guangxi Normal University Press for a long time. I would like to extend my sincere greetings to all the staff of Guangxi Normal University Press who are dedicated to its development.Thirty-five years have passed like a flash. Looking back on the 35-year development course of Guangxi Normal University Press which saw great perseverance in the face of difficulty, a surge of emotions has welled up inside us. Thirty-five years ago, a group of publishers of Guangxi Normal University who were committed to passing down excellent culture got together, driven by their ideal and belief of "publishing good books", founded Guangxi Normal University Press from scratch in Guilin, a small town in the south of our motherland. Since its establishment, Guangxi Normal University Press has taken "publishing good books for the people" as its initial aspiration. In the past 35 years, group after group of publishers of Guangxi Normal University have always concentrated all their efforts on the lofty pursuit of "letting people and books meet”, putting social benefits first while adhering to their initial aspiration.——To let people and books meet, Guangxi Normal University Press bravely participated in market competition from 1986 to 1998. Being oriented to the readers needs, adopting a differentiated development strategy, accurately researching and developing new educational books and actively expanding new marketing models, the Press took the lead in joining hands with private corporations to create a distribution network of general agent systems in various provinces, and rose rapidly in the field of publishing of supplementary teaching materials. Since then, it has become one of the famous "six new culture and education presses", thus developing into an influential professional publishing institution in the field of educational publishing.——To let people and books meet, Guangxi Normal University Press bravely broke through barriers from 1999 to 2008, implementing the cross-regional development strategy, gathering high-quality cultural resources extensively, accumulating momentum for sustainable development, and thus gradually forming a "three-line abreast development" publishing landscape, where education publishing works as the main axis and rare literature and scholarly humanities publishing as the two wings. Five BBT companies emerged, which made the Press one of the "three new social sciences presses" well-known in the industry. Guangxi Normal University Press has developed from a single educational publishing house to a well-known publishing institution across regions and fields, forming a development landscape of "one axis and two wings".——To let people and books meet, driven by branding and collectivized development, from 2009 to 2016, Guangxi Normal University Press strengthened its foundation, improved its publishing quality and efficiency and comprehensively increased the level of its main business of publishing. Moreover, it strengthened its ability for "self-fission"-type development, promoted the operation of mature teams as corporations, and expanded its landscape to Australia, Britain and the United States through overseas mergers and acquisitions. Thus, by optimizing and upgrading its industrial chain and value chain, the Press has highlighted its leading role in the industry development, and become a representative corporation for the innovation-driven development of Chinas publishing industry and "going global” of China’s culture.——To let people and books meet, Guangxi Normal University Press has been taking the path of integrative development since 2017, actively promoting the transformation and upgrading of publishing. It has been connecting with international publishing and distribution, accumulated new momentum for professional and characteristic development, promoting the integration of production and education, and exploring new formats and models of "publishing + culture + technology". Thus, the Press has built a new development landscape where the double domestic and international cycles are mutually promoted, and it has enhanced its capability of collaborative innovation at home and abroad, and become a pathfinder for the forward-looking development of the publishing industry. By developing from a rudimentary multinational publishing institution to a world-famous cultural corporation, Guangxi Normal University Press has embarked on a new journey of stable, sustainable and high-quality development in the new era!In the past thirty-five years, under the strong leadership and cordial care of Party committees, governments at all levels and the university, group after group of publishers of Guangxi Normal University have worked hard to build Guangxi Normal University Press from an unknown local university press located in the border to an international cultural institution with good influence and reputation at home and abroad. Now Guangxi Normal University Press Group has already become a fairly large cultural industry group with more than 30 branches and more than 1,200 employees at home and abroad, and its business involves publishing and distribution of books and periodicals, cultural creativity, knowledge services, educational training, tourism and real estate development. It has made due contributions to the development of our country into a great power in education and culture, which deserves our pride.Comrades and friends!Thirty-five years ago, the predecessors of Guangxi Normal University founded Guangxi Normal University Press. They have developed the lofty spirit of "having steadfast faith, forging ahead, daring to be the first, seeking truth and being pragmatic, and serving the people", which has opened up a way forward for us and pointed out the way forward. It is the precious spiritual wealth of our publishers of Guangxi Normal University.In the past thirty-five years, group after group of publishers of Guangxi Normal University have, by carrying forward this lofty spirit, adhering to the ideal and belief of "publishing good books for the people, strengthening nation cohesion and spreading civilization for mankind” and implementing the mission of "holding aloft the banner, gathering peoples hearts, educating new generations, developing culture and displaying image”, published many excellent books with profound social value and far-reaching historical significance, contributing to inheriting Chinese excellent culture, prospering socialist spiritual civilization and building our country into a socialist cultural power.The river of history flows endlessly, and the spirit is passed down from generation to generation. We should continue to carry forward the glorious tradition generation by generation, inherit and carry forward the lofty spirit created by our predecessors, and drive Guangxi Normal University Press to a more brilliant futureAt this moment, we deeply commemorate LIN Huanping, HE Xianglin, WANG Weixin, DANG Yumin and other publishers of Guangxi Normal University who made great contributions to the establishment and development of Guangxi Normal University Press, and we deeply appreciate the employees who have worked hard and quietly for the development and growth of Guangxi Normal University Press. They have achieved immortal feats in the development of Guangxi Normal University Press, and their great achievements are worth remembering forever!Comrades and friends!History is the best textbook. We should draw the strength of forging ahead from the glorious history of the Partys hundred-year struggle, gain the wisdom of stepping into the future from the 35-year innovation-driven development of the Press, and brighten our journey with the history, so as to keep in mind the initial mission all the time on the new journey and create a better future.——Looking back at the history and looking forward to the future, we must uphold the Partys overall leadership over our publishing work. It is the basic principle for the Party to always take a clear stance in maintaining political integrity in its ideological publicity work. The 35-year development history of Guangxi Normal University Press tells us that adhering to the Partys overall leadership over publishing work is the "root" and "soul" of the sound development of publishing work and an important guarantee for the stable and far-reaching development of state-owned cultural companies.On the new journey, we must uphold the partys overall leadership over publishing work and strengthen our commitment to the "four awarenesses", the "four matters of confidence” and "two upholds"; we must take a clear stance in maintaining political integrity, build a defense line in the ideological sphere, and achieve "taking duty for defending our territory and managing to do our best to fulfill our duty and to be proactive in our work"; it is necessary to constantly improve the leadership of the Party in state-owned cultural corporations, give full play to the leading core role of the Party organizations in state-owned corporations in grasping the overall situation and coordinating all parties, and continuously promote the deep integration of Party building and the our business, so as to set the rudder for the stable, far-reaching and high-quality development of Guangxi Normal University Press!——Looking back at the history and looking forward to the future, we must persist in promoting the modernization of the corporate governance system and governance capacity. To survive and develop in the fierce market competition, we need an advanced governance system and efficient management technology, which is a valuable lesson summed up by Guangxi Normal University Press in its 35-year development process. Facing the unprecedented changes in the world in the past century and the historical intersection of Chinas "two centennial" goals, opportunities and challenges coexist, and so do difficulties and hopes. In order to seize the opportunity and break the waves in the fierce market competition, Guangxi Normal University Press must rely on the modern corporation governance system and efficient corporation management and always maintain vigorous vitality and strong enterprising spirit. It must be good at "nurturing new opportunities in the crisis and opening new prospects in the changing situation".On the new journey, we must persist in promoting the modernization of corporate governance system and governance capacity, constantly improve and perfect various systems, build an effective risk prevention and control system in a scientific way, and enhance the ability to prevent and resolve major risks; completely, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development philosophy, actively explore new models and new formats of industry development, and strive to build a new landscape of corporate development; strive to build a new state-owned cultural corporation with clear established ownership, well defined rights and responsibilities and scientific management, and lay a solid foundation for the high-quality development of Guangxi Normal University Press in the new era——Looking back at the history and looking forward to the future, we must adhere to the strategic policy of "focusing on the main business, deepening education, improving academics and extending development". The 35-year development history of Guangxi Normal University Press fully proves that our foundation lies in publishing, our development depends on publishing, and publishing is the main business that we must firmly grasp. Every time Guangxi Normal University Press develops and grows, it seizes the historical opportunity of publishing industry, thus completing the historic transformation from a small- to a large-scale, from a specialized to an excellent press. Today, the development of publishing industry has entered a new era, and the digital technologies thrived. New technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data and blockchain have brought new possibilities to the publishing industry, and at the same time, posted severe challenges to the traditional publishing industry. So the transformation and upgrading in the publishing business has become the focus of the industry.On the new journey, we must adhere to the strategic policy of "focusing on the main business, deepening education, upgrading academics and extending development". Focusing on our core business of publishing, we must continue the intensive cultivation with education and publishing as the main axis, and constantly increased the level of academic humanities and rare literature publishing; actively build a new publishing system with knowledge service as the goal and digital information as the carrier, explore the new format and mode of "publishing + culture + technology", and accelerate the formation of a publishing industry cluster with the main business of publishing as the core, digital culture as the foundation and diverse forms of development going hand in hand; effectively promote the optimization and upgrading of the publishing industry chain and value chain, and write a new chapter for the high-quality development of Guangxi Normal University Press in the new era!——Looking back at the history and looking forward to the future, we must put the development of qualified personnel in a more prominent position. Qualified personnel are the source of strength for corporate development. In the 35-year development course of Guangxi Normal University Press, it is the continuous participation of a large number of qualified personnel that has made us successful today. In the period full of historical opportunities for the development in the new era, we are more eager for qualified personnel than ever before, and need a strong team of qualified personnel than ever before. Without qualified personnel, our development will stagnate and our cause will suffer losses.On the new journey, we must put the development of qualified personnel in a more prominent and important position, adhere to the Partys overall leadership over the development of qualified personnel, and adhere to the strategy of development led by qualified personnel; increase the introduction of core talents, and actively introduce the high-end compound talents and the scarce special talents who understand both business and management; thoroughly implement the "double training" project, improve the working mechanism of "training the new by the old", and comprehensively improve the overall quality and professional level of the qualified personnel; drive the "encouraging startups and innovation" project to develop in depth, vigorously support young talents to take the lead, actively build a high-quality platform for all kinds of talents and officers to start businesses, create favorable conditions, maximize the efficiency of talent resources, and inject strong impetus into the high-quality development of Guangxi Normal University Press in the new era!——Looking back at the history and looking forward to the future, we must take the building of a happy corporation as our consistent goal. The foundation of a corporation is employees, the development of the corporation depends on employees, and the fruits of the corporation development should be shared by all employees. The 35-year development history of Guangxi Normal University Press fully shows that it is the fundamental reason for Guangxi Normal University Press to maintain strong cohesion and centripetal force in the past 35 years to always adhere to the goal of "corporate development and employee well-being", rely on all employees to promote the continuous progress of the corporation and enable all employees to benefit from the achievements of corporate development.On the new journey, we must take the building of a happy corporation as our goal, adhere to the people-centered development philosophy, and implement the guiding thoughts of "developing the corporation for the employees, by the employees and of the employees"; strive to increase employees incomes, improve the level of employees work and living security, and continuously enhance employees sense of acquisition, happiness and security; further strengthen the development of corporate culture, make efforts to build a united, civilized and harmonious corporate culture, actively create a good atmosphere of "seeing the corporation as home, and depending on everyone for its development", continuously enhance the cohesion and centripetal force of the corporation, and contribute new strength to the high-quality development of Guangxi Normal University Press in the new era!Comrades and friends!In the past 35 years, Guangxi Normal University Press has submitted an excellent answer to the Party, the people and history with one popular book after another, and has become an international cultural institution with good influence and reputation. Now, Guangxi Normal University Press has embarked on the road of stable, far-reaching and high-quality development in the new era. Looking back on the past and looking forward to the future, under the strong leadership and cordial care of Party committees, governments at all levels and the university, and with the firm support of readers and authors, Guangxi Normal University Press, which is in its prime at the age of 35, will surely continue to write a more brilliant new chapter in the great journey of achieving the second centennial goal!Happy 35th birthday to Guangxi Normal University Press!We wish our comrades and friends good health and all the bestThank you very much!Guangxi Normal University Press Group Co., LtdHUANG XuanzhuangParty Secretary and ChairmanNovember 18th, 2021

On October 15th, the Chinese Institute of Prose announced the results of the 9th Bingxin Prose Award. The Group’s Records of Rivers and Lakes: China with Rivers won the Prose Collection Award, and Walking on the Earth won the Prose Collection Nomination Award.Records of Rivers and Lakes: China with Rivers, which won the Prose Collection Award, is a cultural essay on rivers and lakes by TAN Yali, a writer of Hunan Province. By consulting cultural and historical allusions and regional data, taking the search for footprints of rivers and lakes as clues, TAN Yali has recorded the stories about current and past situation of Chinese rivers and lakes from the perspective of water culture through ten years field investigation. In her book, she has interpreted the reproduction of Chinese civilization, and shown the spectacles of "China with Rivers". The book covers from fishing boats on Dongting Lake in the sunset to the boundless reeds along the lake, and from the bustling scenery along the Yangtze River to the busy scene of Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. The writer devotes herself to the writing of water culture. While depicting the beautiful landscape and coastal scenery of the rivers and lakes in the motherland, she tells the stories between Chinese civilization and the rivers and lakes peacefully and calmly. In addition, illustrated with more than 60 images of beautiful landscape or cultural scenery searched along the coast, this book is also a book of vivid and rich geographic culture.Walking on the Earth, winning the Prose Collection Nomination Award, is a collection of travel proses. ZHOU Yuxian, the book’s writer, taking "The Call of Mountains and Waters", "Echo on the Road", "Homesickness" and "Time at Four Seasons" as the titles of the four series, respectively, turns her thoughts generated while making sightseeing tours into elegantly written articles with profound implications. Because of her work, ZHOU Yuxian often goes sightseeing all over China, during which he perceives the call of mountains and rivers, listens to the echoes on the road, and writes down his deep affection for the earth. Her book not only looks back on the carefree life of her childhood, but also shows her nostalgia for hometown, revealing her thoughts on the true meaning and value of life between the lines, which can easily arouse readers resonance.

Recently, the results of The Asia Book Awards 2021 sponsored by Korea Publishers Society (KOPUS) were announced, and GXNU Press Groups Technology and Civilization won the Award of the Best Asian Books of the Year (of the popular culture category). The Asian Book Awards, formerly known as the Paju Book Awards, is one of the most important and credible awards in Asian publishing industry. This award aims to reward the outstanding achievements of Asian publishing industry and raise people’s awareness of the high-level ideas, theories and regional perspectives through the dynamic and progressive cultures of Asian countries. Since 2012, the Awards has been held for 9 times. Every year, judges from China (including Taiwan Province and Hong Kong), Japan and South Korea select and commend the most representative books of humanities and social sciences in that year. From 2021, the Paju Book Awards has been renamed the Asia Book Awards, and the "Social and Cultural Popular Book Awards" has been added into the Awards.In this year’s selection, after several rounds of screening and reviewing meetings by nominating committees from China (including Taiwan Province and Hong Kong), Japan and South Korea, a total of 10 works were shortlisted for the final selection. Among them, Technology and Civilization published by the Group was recognized by the nomination committees and selected into "Social and Cultural Popular Books". Previously, Xinmin Shuo in the Cultural Series of Great Views, published by the Group, won the Planning Award of the Fifth Paju Book Awards.The award-winning Technology and Civilization is the first title in the series of "Civilization Trilogy" by young political scientist ZHANG Xiaoyu, and it is known as "the Stellar Moments of Humankind with technology as the main clue in China, which is comparable to Heralis A brief History of Humankind". Born in 1987, ZHANG Xiaoyu studied at Renmin University of China, Peking University and Free University of Berlin successively. He is now a researcher at the Center for World Politics at East China Normal University and a researcher at Shanghai Academy for World Watch. In this book, from the perspective of technology drive, ZHANG Xiaoyu screened out 14 key historical moments from thousands of years of history, and gained insight into the irreversible fate of human society. The second title of the series, Commerce and Civilization: The Birth of the Modern World, has been officially published, and the last title Industry and Civilization: Games Related to the Fate of Human Species, will be published soon. The trilogy constitutes a general history to interpret the development of human civilization.

On August 30th, the Ministry of Commerce, the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the National Radio and Television Administration jointly issued the Announcement on National Key Cultural Export Enterprises and Projects in 2021-2022. According to the announcement, "Guangxi Normal University Press Group Co., Ltd." was selected as a National Key Cultural Export Enterprise, and the "Cooperative Publishing Project of Guangxi Normal University Press Group Co., Ltd. Macao Branch" was selected as a National Key Cultural Export Project.As far as we know, the national key cultural export enterprises and projects are jointly organized and identified by the Ministry of Commerce, the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the National Radio and Television Administration. They are major decision-making arrangements of the CCCPC and the State Council on promoting "going global” of China’s culture, aiming to promote the high-quality development of foreign cultural trade and cultivate export-oriented cultural enterprises with international competitiveness. For a long time, the Group has always adhered to the correct publishing orientation, combined the national strategic planning with the enterprises own development, accelerated the international development, cooperated with overseas companies through copyright trade export and cooperative publishing, built overseas publishing platforms through mergers and acquisitions, established overseas branches and other forms, and committed to building an overseas market channel with "self-initiative", autonomy and discourse power, it has gradually developed into a multinational publishing institution with a mature and complete industrial chain. Through the Cooperative Publishing Project, the Macao Branch of the Group actively responded to and implemented the relevant deployment of the "going global” of China’s culture, resolutely maintained the policy of "one country, two systems”, and safeguarded the stability and unity of Macao. It hoped that the publication would reflect the development process of the "one country, two systems" in Macao, so as to achieve both social and economic benefits.It is reported that only 2 of the 369 enterprises selected as national key cultural export enterprises are in Guangxi, and 3 of the 122 projects selected as national key cultural export projects are in Guangxi, and the Group has one quota each. Next, the Group will take this opportunity to closely follow the strategic deployment of “the Belt and Road Initiative”, based on the regional advantages, consolidate and integrate the advantages of overseas industrial chain, promote the optimal allocation of domestic and foreign resources and the development and integration of domestic and foreign markets, innovate international communication means, comprehensively improve the international communication ability, promote the international communication of Chinese publishing creativity and excellent culture, and promote international communication to a new level.

The 2021 International Publishing Forum was held in Beijing in the afternoon of September 16th. It was hosted by the Publishers Association of China, the International Publishers Association and China Publishing Group Corp., organized by Xinhua Bookstore Headoffice, the Group, Oriental Publishing Center, "the Belt and Road Initiative" Publishing Committee of the Publishers Association of China and the International Publishing Weekly, and co-organized by Xinhua Wanwei International Cultural Media (Beijing) Co., Ltd. The theme of this forum is "international communication capability and international market". Representatives from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan and other countries and regions, as well as more than 100 senior domestic and foreign publishers, participated in the online-offline combined forum. HUANG Xuanzhuang, Party Secretary and Chairman of the Group, attended the forum and made a keynote speech. James Smith, Joint CEO of ACC Publishing Group Ltd. under the Group and the Images Publishing Group Pty., Ltd., delivered an online keynote speech.HUANG Xuanzhuang made a keynote speech entitled Building a Bridge of International Communication with Art Design. He believes that the "going global" of Chinese publishing has become the basic consensus and strategic choice of the Chinese publishing industry. In recent years, Chinese publishing institutions have stepped up their pace to go abroad, expand the international market, practice and explore the international publishing and communication of Chinese culture, and have made great achievements. In recent years, the Group has rapidly built a more mature and complete international publishing industry chain through two overseas acquisitions and locations in several countries, and its international influence has gradually increased. According to the 10-year statistics of the "Research Report on the Influence of Overseas Collection of Chinese Books", the Group has nearly 3,000 kinds of books collected by overseas libraries, ranking among the top 20 publishing houses in the list of the influence of overseas collection of Chinese books for eight consecutive years, and ranking 12th among the 41 publishing houses that have been selected into the list of the top 100 publishing houses for ten consecutive years, becoming one of the most famous publishing houses in China that took the lead in “going global”. "The Art Bridge platform originates from publishing, but not just publishing.” HUANG Xuanzhuang said that after five years of experience accumulation and efforts, the Group has gradually achieved resource integration, derivative development and cross-border transformation, and has become an international cross-border cultural and artistic exchange platform that attracts the attention of professionals around the world. Through the launch of boutique publications such as "Design Library" and "Annual Series" of "Art Bridge", the Group has been recognized by the international market, and has acted as an agent for the copyright business of art and design books of more than 200 world-renowned publishing houses, as well as more than 100 copyrights of Chinese art and design books. By creating an offline compound aesthetic "Art Bridge Space", the Group has built a cross-border interaction platform integrating art stores, art bookstores and galleries, conducted in-depth research in the aspects of financial development and industrial transformation and upgrading, and promoted and led the international communication of Chinese culture.HUANG Xuanzhuang also pointed out that the international communication of Chinese publishing is still a systematic, long-term and comprehensive project. The Group is willing to further strengthen cooperation with all parties, explore new ways of international communication, innovate new ways of international communication, build a new platform for international communication, build a bridge of international communication of art design, and contribute new strength to promoting the international communication of Chinese culture.James Smith said that since joining the Group, the two sides have maintained a friendly and close cooperative relationship and have a bright future in the market and sales. In the past year and a half, the publishing industry itself has changed in terms of sales mode, industry form, industrial chain operation, etc., which has also enabled publishers to make positive adjustments in content creation, marketing skills, sales methods, etc. James Smith believes that books and content are still the eternal theme, and the traditional publishing format still has the value of existence. He thanks the industry and readers for their joint efforts, and looks forward to working together for a more prosperous book publishing industry.