Shen is a dealer of second-hand teaching materials. Every week, he goes to the recycling point in Wang Liang to buy second-hand textbooks. At the waste collection station, he bought second-hand teaching materials at the price of 2 yuan per catty and then resold them. According to He Shen, taking this waste recycling station as an example, more than 93% of all the second-hand teaching materials recovered by it eventually flowed to the paper mill.

As a phased learning material, the retention rate of teaching materials is not high. The data shows that in the past five years, the retail sales of teaching AIDS for primary and secondary schools, textbooks for colleges and universities, and teaching AIDS for business education nationwide averaged about 2.8 billion copies per year, amounting to more than 20 billion yuan, and the printing of teaching materials became more and more exquisite. Insiders pointed out that if these textbooks are recycled for one year, they can save more than 20 billion yuan, and if they flow to paper mills, they will cause great pollution and waste.

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Online trading of second-hand teaching materials faces many difficulties.

Offline teaching materials are sold as waste products, and online teaching materials transactions are becoming increasingly hot. The reporter learned from several major online trading platforms in China that the transaction volume of second-hand teaching materials has doubled in recent years, but behind the fiery, second-hand teaching materials transactions have also encountered many problems.

The reporter logged into a domestic second-hand book trading platform and saw that there were 530,984 results in only one textbook, covering from the first grade of primary school to postgraduate education, adult education, vocational training and other categories.

Sun Yutian, head of a second-hand book trading platform: In recent years, the transaction has grown very fast. The turnover of our second-hand textbooks in 20 18 was 8.4 million yuan, in 20 19 it was160,000 yuan, and in 2020 it was 27 million yuan by June 10, which basically increased by 100% in the past two years.

The data of another idle goods trading platform shows that 1.6 million textbooks have been sold in the last month, and the number of online sellers has exceeded 30 million. In March this year, the number of users aged 15 to 18 increased by 207%.

Shen, a second-hand bookseller in Yanjiao, Hebei, is one of the sellers of these online trading platforms. He told reporters that with the increasing demand for second-hand teaching materials in recent years, they are facing more and more problems.

The first is labor cost, complicated sorting, website uploading, packaging and mailing. It needs to consume a lot of manpower and material resources, and the data analysis ability of the seller is also extremely demanding;

Secondly, the frequent updating of teaching materials and the high transaction cost of express delivery several times the price of old books also hinder the circulation of second-hand teaching materials to some extent;

Most importantly, according to the relevant regulations, units and individuals engaged in publication distribution business must purchase goods from publishing units that have obtained wholesale and retail qualifications according to law, which brings potential legal risks to most online second-hand booksellers.

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