Guizhou Publishing Group and CNPIEC Sign Strategic Cooperation Agreement
On March 30, Guizhou Publishing Group and China National Publications Import and Export Corporation signed a cooperation agreement, according to which the two sides will carry out cooperation in convergent publishing, "5G new reading", talent training, and printing business, to promote the efficiency and effectiveness of enterprises to achieve high-quality development of the main business.
With an open attitude, Guizhou Publishing Group will take advantage of the internationalization and digitalization resources of CNPIEC, empower the publishing industry, Xinhua bookstores, and foreign language bookstores with new vitality through high technology such as big data, artificial intelligence, metaverse, and 5G new reading.
Publishing Media Responds to Investors Its Direction of Transformation and Upgrading in the Next Three Years
CITIC Securities research report points out that the digital operation of cultural IP is expected to bring about 70 billion yuan incremental space for the publishing industry in 2026. In addition, GPT's large model training in Chinese requires a large amount of high-quality corpus data, and the content assets owned by publishing companies can provide rich quality language material for the model. In this regard, an investor asked Publishing Media (Northern United Publishing Media (Group) Co., Ltd.) whether the company has laid out digital reading in the era of digital economy.
Publishing Media responded that the company is now further implementing its digital publishing convergent development strategy, accelerating the production and promotion of high-quality audio books, e-books, and other audio and video products. The "digital factory" continues to promote the development of "modern paper books", with digital product revenue gradually expanding. Accelerating the construction of integrated platforms and special projects, which accumulated high-quality resources, and the conversion rate of users' payment continued to increase. In addition to the digital transformation of traditional publishing, the Company continued to promote the transformation and upgrading of various industrial segments, including strengthening the construction of its own e-commerce platform to enhance the distribution capacity of online channels. Implementing printing technology improvement and upgrading to expand the label printing, confidential printing, high-end printing, and intelligent printing markets and accelerating the construction of an intelligent three-dimensional warehouse in the distribution company to enhance logistics distribution and storage capacity. At the same time, the company will accelerate the construction of the copyright service platform system of the Northern National Copyright Exchange Centre, increase the gathering of copyright resources and cultivate and expand new economic sectors.
Central China Publishing and Media Group and Nanyang City Sign Strategic Cooperation Agreement
On March 28th, Central China Publishing & Media Group and Nanyang Municipal People's Government held a strategic cooperation signing ceremony at the Nanyang Hotel. The two sides will carry out a "package" of strategic cooperation in many aspects such as enhancing the brand influence of Nanyang's regional cultural tourism and integrated intelligent education solutions.
In this cooperation, CCPMG will give full play to its advantages in content incubation, teacher training, platform operation, brand building, and venue construction, deepen exchanges and cooperation with Nanyang in the areas of region-wide study and research, intelligent education, and integrated development of culture, education, tourism and sports, promote complementary advantages and achieve mutual benefits. The project will be carried out in Nanyang City and its four districts and 13 counties.
At present, CCPMG has expanded its research and study cooperation in China’s central Henan province, and has reached strategic cooperation with Zhengzhou, Hebi, Linzhou, Xinxian, Ruzhou, and many other cities.
The First Creative Base of the People's Literature Publishing House Was Established in Quanzhou
The inauguration ceremony of the "People's Literature Publishing House Creative Writing Base" and "Cai Chongda Publishing Studio of People's Literature Publishing House" was held in Quanzhou on March 26. This is also the first creative base set up by the People's Literature Publishing House, which aims to integrate the content and channel advantages of the People's Literature Publishing House with the location and cultural advantages of Quanzhou, and strive to build an important platform for literary exchanges along the "Belt and Road Initiative".
On 28 March, the first workshop was held at the People's Literature Publishing House Creative Writing Base, with Zhao Ping and He Xiangyang, winner of the Lu Xun Literature Prize and Director of the Creative Research Department of the Chinese Writers' Association, as the guest speakers to share their stories of literary creation.