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What is People's Education Press?
People's Education Press (PEP) was established in June 5438+095065438+February 1. It is a large-scale professional publishing house directly under the Ministry of Education, which is engaged in the research, compilation, editing, publishing and distribution of basic education textbooks and educational books. Comrade Mao Zedong inscribed the name of the club. The first president and editor-in-chief was Mr. Ye Shengtao, a famous educator, writer and publisher in China. People's Education Publishing House, as the earliest national publishing house established in New China, is mainly engaged in compiling and publishing textbooks for primary and secondary schools and educational books. With the cordial care of the party and the country for generations, it has gradually developed and expanded.

For more than 50 years, entrusted by the Ministry of Education, People's Education Publishing House presided over or participated in drafting the national syllabus for primary and secondary schools before 2000. According to the needs of China's educational reform and development, successively

The name of the club inscribed by President Mao Zedong.

Compiled and published 9 sets of national primary and secondary school textbooks; At present, the tenth set of textbooks published by People's Education Publishing House, that is, the new set of 2 1 century compulsory education textbooks compiled according to the new curriculum standards of the Ministry of Education, are being published one after another, and some of them have been tried out in the experimental area determined by the Ministry of Education. Since the establishment of the self-study association, more than 10,000 kinds of publications have been published, with a total print run of tens of billions.