1727, Longman Company published Ephraim Chambers Encyclopedia-Encyclopedia _ General Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. This is considered to be the embryonic form of an encyclopedia.

1755, Longman Company published Dr. samuel johnson's English Dictionary, which is the first English dictionary in the world.

Longman became a listed company from 65438 to 0948.

1968, Longman Company was acquired by Pearson.

1972 with the death of mark longman, the last family president of longman, longman company ended the history of family management.

Since 1970s, Longman has published several successful English dictionaries, such as Longman New International Dictionary (also called Longman Concise English Dictionary), Longman Modern English Dictionary, Longman Contemporary English Dictionary, Longman English Dictionary, Longman English Language and Culture Dictionary, Longman Synonyms Dictionary and Longman Phrases and Verbs Dictionary.

From 65438 to 0988, Pearson acquired Addison Wesley, who specialized in publishing books in the fields of mathematics and technology.

1994, Longman Interactive English Dictionary was published by Longman Company, which was the first CD-ROM edition of English teaching dictionary.

From 65438 to 0996, Addison-Wesley and Longman merged into Addison-Wesley-Longman Publishing House, which became the largest English textbook publishing institution in the world at that time.

1May, 998, Pearson merged with Simon Schuster (Simon &; Schuster's education publishing department, reference book publishing department, business and professional book publishing department. At the end of the year, the education publishing department of Simon Schuster merged with Addison-Wesley-Longman Group to form Pearson Education Group, thus becoming the largest education publisher in the world, and Longman Company became the publisher of Pearson Education.

In the same year, Pearson acquired eCollege, a distance online learning service provider, for $538 million. ECollege Company was established in 1996. Its main business is to design, establish and support online degree education, certificate education, diploma education and career development projects in cooperation with educational institutions. Pearson Education Group implements the group strategy of continuous investment in education and publishing.

In order to establish and consolidate its advantages in various fields, Pearson Education Group continues to invest in four aspects: content, new technologies and services, international market and operational efficiency. In terms of content, Pearson insists on steadily investing in unique and valuable published content, and constantly updates and supplements the published content resources. Since 2002, Pearson has invested $654.38+0.6 billion to develop new content in the fields of education and publishing. In 2006, Pearson Group created more than $654.38 billion in sales revenue through new technology products and services. Longman has been influencing China people's English learning since 1970s. Classic learning materials such as Side by Side, Core English, Penguin Children's English and Longman English Dictionary have been published successively, which have influenced the English learning of several generations in China, especially English textbooks such as Follow Me, Travel All over the United States and Longman Contemporary English Dictionary. Longman has introduced its English education resources to basic education, higher education and mass training institutions in China, and most primary schools, junior high schools, senior high schools and universities in China are using Longman copyright English textbooks.

Longman's cooperative publishing houses include Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, New Oriental Education Science and Technology Group, World Book Publishing Company and Nankai University Press.

The cooperation between Pearson Group and China began in the early 20th century. Pearson Education Group is committed to serving education in China, providing teaching resources and services suitable for domestic education needs. Pearson Education Group is the most outstanding international publishing company in terms of the breadth and depth of cooperation. For example:

In the 1970s, Basic Practical English published by Longman Group was introduced to China.

From 65438 to 0980, New Concept English, published by Longman Company, a subsidiary of Pearson Education Publishing Group, has been a classic textbook for generations to learn English in China.

Entrusted by UNESCO in the early 1990s, Longman Company cooperated with People's Education Society to compile English textbooks for junior and senior high schools in compulsory education, which are still widely used in the 20th century.

In the 1990s, the book "All over the United States" began to be widely used in China.

Since 1996, Pearson has published hundreds of economic management textbooks and computer textbooks in cooperation with Renmin University of China Press, Tsinghua University Press and Higher Education Press, including business administration classic translation series, economic science translation series and business administration English series, many of which are recognized as top textbooks in the world.

In 2000, Pearson Education Publishing Group cooperated with Higher Education Press to publish the first batch of excellent original foreign computer photocopying textbooks, which were designated as excellent foreign textbooks by the Ministry of Education.

In 2002, in order to cooperate with the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Pearson Group cooperated with CCTV to produce a teaching film "Beijing Taxi to London" to learn English and promote Beijing, which received a good response in Asia.

In 2003, Pearson cooperated with Tsinghua University Publishing House to create multimedia teaching resources for English education reform in colleges and universities with Longman's latest online English teaching resources, which passed the evaluation of the Ministry of Education.

In 2003, Pearson cooperated with Higher Education Press to launch a foreign textbook adaptation project for the first time to meet the domestic education demand.

In 2004, Li Lanqing and FLTRP jointly published the English version of An Interview with China Education, which was widely distributed overseas.

Pearson Education Publishing Group is also actively looking for opportunities to export domestic high-quality textbooks, such as dictionaries and Chinese textbooks, and will continue to expand cooperation in this field.

Pearson Education Group has a wide range of partners in China, all of which are first-class publishers, such as Higher Education Press, Tsinghua University Press, Peking University Press, Renmin University Press, Science Press, Machinery Industry Press, Electronic Industry Press, People's Posts and Telecommunications Press, Commercial Press, Foreign Language Press, People's Education Press, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Society and so on. In terms of higher education, according to the reform policy and development needs of the Ministry of Education in China, a variety of English textbooks and dictionaries have been published in cooperation with domestic publishing houses, among which Longman English Dictionary, New Concept English and Contemporary College English published in cooperation with the Commercial Press and Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing House have exerted a strong influence. In addition, cooperation has also been carried out in science textbooks for primary and secondary schools.