The company was officially founded on November 18, 2008, and began the industrialization of traditional publishing with a series of innovative initiatives. The company's main business involves various business fields such as book and journal publishing, new media publishing, quality education after-school services, printing and reproduction, cultural products trade, and equity investment. The company's main products and businesses include agency distribution of textbooks and general books; journals; electronic publications; digital publications; editing and publishing of teaching aids; including online education; digital publishing; new media business development; quality education after-school service business; printing of textbooks, textbooks, general books, newspapers, notes, packaging, etc.; procurement and trade of paper, printing equipment and related cultural products; implementation of entrusted financial management with own funds; entrustment loans; equity investment; and participation in project investment through fund management; self-operated commercial real estate operations; art transactions, etc. The company has successively won the top 100 comprehensive strength of listed companies in China, the top 100 most innovative Chinese listed companies, the first batch of modern service industry innovation and development demonstration enterprises, the first national cultural export key enterprise, the first batch of national digital publishing transformation demonstration units, the China Publishing Government Award Advanced Publishing Unit Award, the “Go Global” Advanced Group Award, the China Copyright Gold Award, the China Book Promotion Program Special Contribution Award, the world's top 500 media, the first batch of modern service industry innovation and development demonstration enterprises, the first nationally certified enterprise technology center cultural enterprise, National cultural export key enterprises, the first batch of national digital publishing transformation demonstration units, and “National Top 30 Cultural Enterprises” honors.