Higher Education Press,the largest and most prominent publisher of educational books in China, was founded in 1954. Dating back to early stage, its major focus was on publishing university textbooks on Science and Engineering. During the past two decades, its publication scope has been significantly broadened. Besides college textbooks, it publishes all-level books concerning postgraduate education, vocational education, continuing education, and online education, etc. Its publications range from science, engineering, humanity and arts, social sciences, education to economics and management. Never confining itself to paper printing, Higher Education Press also develops a great amount of audio-visual, electronic products and on-line teaching materials today.

In the last 49 years, Higher Education Press enjoyed the total publication titles of over 30000. The current annual number is around 4500, among which about 1500 are new titles and the sum of copies amounts to 65 million yearly. Higher Education Press earns its reputation for high quality and reasonable prices in China. More than 500 of its textbooks have been awarded the State-level Book Prize and the National excellent Textbook Prize, and over 50 electronic and audio-visual products have been ranked high in all kinds of state-level prizes as well. In 1998, Higher Education Press was successfully nominated as National Outstanding Publisher.

Higher Education Press attaches great importance to international exchanges and cooperation. It has extensive cooperation and trade relations with more than twenty countries worldwide, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Japan, etc., and regions like Hong Kong and Taiwan. In recent years, with regard to the exchanges of excellent textbooks, it has established positive and productive cooperation with numbers of other world-known publishers.