The Present Chinese Printing IndustryAt present there are 82,189 printing houses. Among them 69,766 are engaged in copying, photoprinting and mimeography. The total number of employees is over 3 million. By classification of management, there are 8,152 publication printers (including 2,843 typesetting and plate-makings and binding houses, 20,409 package and 53,628 other miscellaneous printers.
Classified by ownership, 7,880 enterprises are of state-ownership, 30,219 are collective owned and 2,295 are with foreign capital ( including 1055 in joint-venture; 267 Chinese-Foreign cooperative, 473 in foreign venture and 500 others). 4,498 limited companies, 2,547 stock sharing companies with limited liabilities, 9,833 private-owned, 23,165 family-operated and 1,752 others. These enterprises produce 140 thousand titles of books, 8000 kinds of magazines, more than 2000 kinds of newspapers and plenty of packaging and decorating prints and all kinds of colorful printing items annually.
