CITIC Press Group (), formerly CITIC Publishing Group, is a publishing company founded in 1988 based in
Beijing
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,
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. The publisher is a subsidiary of
CITIC Group
CITIC Group Corporation Ltd., formerly the China International Trust Investment Corporation (CITIC), is a state-owned investment company of the People's Republic of China, established by Rong Yiren in 1979 with the approval of Deng Xiaoping. ...
. They engage in digital and physical book retail and provide professional education.
History
The company was established in 1988 as China CITIC Press.
In 2001, Wang Bin was hired to run the publishing house.
It was reorganized to CITIC Publishing Group in 2008, and renamed back to CITIC Press in 2013.
Since 2010, the CITIC Press Group has been developing a network of bookstores in major airports and other important buildings in China. By December 2015, the company owned 132 bookstores, and announced its plan to open of a 1,000 more the following year.
In January 2017, the company announced the launch of its content product aggregation platform ''Citic Academy''. In September 2017, the CITIC Press Group signed a deal with Japan's
Culture Convenience Club
is a Japanese company that operates Tsutaya (蔦屋), a chain of video rental shops and bookstores throughout Japan and Taiwan. The company is headquartered in Ebisu, Tokyo. The stock of the company was formerly listed in the first section of the ...
to create a joint cultural content distribution platform.
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Book publishing companies of China
Mass media in Beijing
CITIC Group
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