Authors don't have to pay any fees for submitting papers, and some journals will charge color printing fees and pay them voluntarily. However, such periodicals charge subscription fees, and an article may cost tens of dollars. Many teachers and students in China say that they don't want money, in fact, because your unit bought the copyright, and the campus IP can be downloaded directly. Many people have experienced the situation that they can't download papers when they go home. In addition, many non-open access journals also provide open access services. As long as you pay, readers can download it for free. At present, some foreign scientific research funds require that the output papers must be OA, and the relevant budgetary expenditures are allowed. Domestic journals are basically foreign OA journals, and the authors pay the money and the readers are free. Some people say that CNKI takes money, but CNKI is completely different from domestic periodicals. You can go directly to official website, domestic journals, and basically all papers can be downloaded directly. In fact, China HowNet provides retrieval service. His income doesn't seem to be distributed among periodical organizers.