CITIC Press Group

CITIC Press Group
	Jiaming Center, which houses the company
Company type	State-owned enterprise
Industry	Publishing
Founded	2008
Headquarters	Beijing, China
Parent	CITIC Group
Website	www.citicpub.com

CITIC Press Group (Chinese: 中信出版集团), formerly CITIC Publishing Group, is a publishing company founded in 1988 based in Beijing, China. The publisher is a subsidiary of the state-owned CITIC Group.^[1] They engage in digital and physical book retail and provide professional education.

History

The company was established in 1988 as China CITIC Press.^{[citation needed]}

In 2001, Wang Bin was hired to run the publishing house.^[2]

It was reorganized to CITIC Publishing Group in 2008, and renamed back to CITIC Press in 2013.^[3]^[4]

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.^[5]

In January 2017, the company announced the launch of its content product aggregation platform Citic Academy.^[6] In September 2017, the CITIC Press Group signed a deal with Japan's Culture Convenience Club to create a joint cultural content distribution platform.^{[citation needed]}