Guangzhou Xinhua Publishing and Distribution Group Joint-stock Co., Ltd.

Guangzhou Xinhua Publishing and Distribution Group Joint-stock Co., Ltd. was established in 2008. It is a municipal state-owned cultural enterprise formed by the Guangzhou Municipal Government based on the overall deployment of cultural system reform, with Guangzhou Xinhua Bookstore Group and Guangzhou Publishing House as its foundation. It owns well-known cultural brands such as "Guangzhou Book Center", "Guangzhou Xinhua Bookstore", and "Guangzhou Publishing House".

The Group has under its jurisdiction nine secondary subsidiaries, including Guangzhou Xinhua Bookstore Group Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Publishing House Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Xinhua Distribution Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Newsstand Co., Ltd., Logistics Distribution Branch of Guangzhou Xinhua Publishing and Distribution Group Joint-stock Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Digital Publishing Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Tupi Innovation Center Operation Management Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Xinhua Cultural Media Service Co., Ltd., and Property Development Branch of Guangzhou Xinhua Publishing and Distribution Group Joint-stock Co., Ltd., forming a comprehensive modern cultural enterprise group based on book publishing, distribution, and cultural product circulation, with diversified cultural industries, newsstands and advertising operations, and book wholesale as auxiliary businesses.

Currently, the Group has established a physical bookstore network within Guangzhou and radiates to multiple cities across the province. Guangzhou Publishing House is a comprehensive municipal publishing house in Guangzhou and has been recognized as an advanced collective in the national press, publishing, radio, film, and television system. Guangzhou Book Wholesale Market is a large-scale and influential second-level book wholesale distribution center in South China. Guangzhou Newsstand Company operates nearly 1,700 newsstands across the city, of which over 600 are smart newsstands, equipped with a "smart information screen" public welfare publicity matrix, playing an important role in social ideological control. The Group assists the Municipal Party Committee's Publicity Department in carrying out nationwide reading campaigns in Guangzhou. The influence of national reading brands such as "Guangzhou Reading Month", "Yangcheng Book Fair", and "Huacheng Study" continues to strengthen, helping Guangzhou's national reading index rank among the top in the province and the country for seven consecutive years.