China Light Industry Press Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as CHLIP) was established on October 1954. It was rated as the national first class press, “National Top-Hundred Publishers” by former General Administration of Press and Publication and “the Model unit of the first national digital publishing transformation” by former State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television.

Advocating the idea of “Based on science and focus on life”, CHLIP has produced a large number of books, journals, audio-visual products and electronic publications with distinctive characteristics, which are deeply loved by the reading public and widely recognized and praised by the industry.Now, CHLIP publishes more than 1500 books annually with printing price of nearly 400 million yuan.

CHLIP received “the Best Works Award”, “The Chinese Government Award for Publishing”, “The Chinese Outstanding Publication Award” and “ "A Hundred Patriotic Films/Songs/Books" etc. for several times. In addition, there are nearly 400 awards for books, over 300 awards for periodical and numerous awards for audiovisual products and electronic publications, advanced unit and excellent people. It also completed dozens of the National Important Books projects and some of them won national funds such as the National Publishing Fund, National Fund for Academic works Publishing of Science and Technology (NFAPST), the Classic China International Publishing Project, and "Driving Force" China original animation publishing support plan. CHLIP is undertaking the editing and publishing of several hundreds of national, provincial and ministerial planning textbooks. According to Report on Overseas Library Collections of well-known books from China, CHLIP has been selected into the top 100 presses for eight consecutive years.

Journal publishing is another important sector of CHLIP. Rayli has a profound impact on contemporary Chinese urban fashion for its concepts of “designing life and beauty”. With 21 years of development, Rayli, Rayli Fashion and Beauty, Rayli Beauty Style, Rayli Home Design, Leon and other magazines constituted a branding periodical group. Under the strategic guidance of “media integration and brand extension”, Rayli brand has already become a three-dimensional enterprise which takes high-end periodical publishing as core business, develops network, book publishing, wireless mobile media and other media, also develops advertising, issuing, integrated marketing and model agency. China State-owned Enterprise Management and Innovation World Weekly published by CHLIP have broken the new ground.

CHLIP, as one of the first 50 presses with the rights of online publication, achieved continuously rapid growth of digital publishing and new media, the pace of transformation and upgrading has also been accelerating. Many multi-media interactive platform projects are nationally funded . The official website of CHLIP (www.chlip.com.cn) and Rayli (www.rayli.com.cn) have been awarded “Top 100 Website in China’s Press and Publishing Industry” for consecutive years.

Actively carrying out exchanges and cooperations with foreign counterparts is one of CHLIP’s strategies to achieve brand effect. To strengthen the international cooperation and exchanges, CHLIP develops the copyrights trade all over the world and has established long-term, friendly and stable relationships with large publishing groups from USA, Germany, Britain, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Spain, Turkey and publishers in Taiwan and Hong Kong SAR. In recent years, we have strengthened cultural confidence and carried forward China's traditional culture to international market.

Based on the new development stage, CHLIP will continually adhere to correct political direction, put social benefits in the first place, and realize the unity of social benefits and economic benefits. CHLIP will also actively promote the development of digital integration, be upright and innovative, and make great contribution to the realization of the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.