Sino-Japanese Press Carrying out All-round Cooperation

It is learned from China Publishing Group, that after two years'' operation, China Tohan Ltd, an incorporated publishing company, not only has realized its plan of joining hands with Japanese Toku Corporation, a world first-class issuer, from a high starting pointing in a wide range, but has also brought their bilateral cooperation into an all-round one, which also indicates that China Publishing Group has made a breakthrough in win-win cooperation at a deep level with significant partners in priority nations.

Since it was established two years ago, this joint venture has translated and published quite a number of books which represent Chinese culture and modern popular novels , such as The Chinese Zodiac (in six versions) and Save The Breast by Bi Shumin, a famous Chinese writer. Besides, it published The Pandas, a children''s picture book, going with the pandas, Linlin and Xinxin, moving from Sichuan Province, China to Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, Japan, and was perfectly received. Apart from this, it also held a Sino-Japanese Exchange Meeting during the Beijing International Book Fair, in which 200 publishers from both sides has established their business relations. Currently, the company is translating A Bite of China, a documentary of CCTV, into Japanese, and it will be sold in mainstream channels in Japan by Japanese Toku Corporation.

From June 20 to June 21, China Tohan Ltd had a meeting of the board in Beijing. Based on the good operation and the vision of future development, the board reached agreement in setting up shoppe of China Publishing Group in Japanese chain bookstore, conducting book sale fairs, cartoon fairs and operation communication at regular intervals, pushing forward Chinese cartoon''s research and development by "entering for outing" and establishing Sino-Japanese copyright communication center. And the board signed a summary. Tan Yue, The president of China Publishing Group, said that as the Chinese book market is becoming more and more mature and Chinese people has an increasing need for spiritual culture, the demand for Chinese book market was increasing strongly. He hoped that Tohan Corporation continued strengthening and expanding the cooperation. Long Bozheng, the chairman of Tohan Corporation, affirmed highly the good relationship between China Publishing Group and Tohan and expressed the will that they would spare no effort to devote to the friendship between Chinese and Japanese Presses.

It''s known that China Publishing Tohan Ltd is invested by China Publishing Group, China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Corporation, Tohan Corporation and Japanese Zongheng Group China Media Corporation in Tokyo. Chinese side holds 51% of shares. The company has the functions of both publishing and issuing. The main businesses are translating and publishing Chinese good books in Japan, independently planning and publishing books and electronic and audio-visual publications of Chinese themes and the two-way copyright business of books of Chinese and Japanese version. Next, the company will combine the advantage of Japanese cartoon design and the content of China Publishing Group, plan some topics about Chinese traditional cultural, contemporary city development and centuries old brands and publish some books of Chinese topics in Japan, together with some Japanese cartoonists.