The Commercial Press's publishing arm is focused on the promotion of culture and education. A wide variety of publications are produced, with art and pictorial books on history and culture, classical works, language learning books, dictionaries, reference books and textbooks being the mainstays. Books on business management, finance and trade, politics, law, Chinese medicine, health care and children's books are also produced as sidelines.

Our company is distinguished by its cultural publications. We have published many quality art and pictorial books on history and culture. Earlier volumes, like 5000 Years of Chinese Costumes, The Land Within the Passes and Pictorial Encyclopedia of Chinese Medicinal Herbs Series, were outstanding award-winners, while current projects, like The Complete Collection of Dunhuang Grottoes and The Complete Collection of the Palace Museum, are monumental, cross-century undertakings. By adapting the wealth of resources at our disposal to suit the modern reader, our company has developed entirely new approaches to traditional classics, publishing outstanding series such as Chinese Civilization in a New Light, The Forbidden City, Ancient China: An Illustrated Guide, The Classical Chinese Literature in Exquisite Brushstrokes Series, and so on.

Many of our authors are eminent scholars and renowned researchers from the educational and cultural sectors, who guarantee the academic level and quality of our publications. Outstanding authors include the cultural relics expert Shen Congwen, the historian Qian Mu, and the linguist Lu Shuxiang. We also have long-term collaboration arrangements with prestigious organizations and institutes such as the Palace Museum, the Dunhuang Research Institute, the Second Historical Archives of China and regional museums of China. Such collaboration gives us access to an abundance of invaluable information and resources.

To keep pace with new modes of reading brought about by modern technology, we have produced electronic publications in such areas as art, historical relics, education, history and language learning. These include the world's first multimedia Chinese dictionary CD-ROM, the Hanyu Dacidian CD-ROM, and the SEYBOLD Electronic Publishing Award-winner, Hongkong Stamps. Following the successful development of a Chinese word database, bilingual word databases with Chinese and parallel English, Japanese, German, French and Spanish languages will be launched successively.

In line with modern publishing trends, our company has established a new framework for cross-regional publishing, securing bases in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing. Together, they form an efficient operational mechanism, a well-coordinated system for the whole publishing process, from planning the scope and topics, editing and processing, design and production, right through to marketing. A solid foundation has been laid for new-style publishing for the Greater China market in this newera.