The predecessor of the central printing plant is the printing plant of the National Bank of the Ministry of Finance of the Northwest Office of the Chinese Soviet. 1937+0 After the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China entered Yan 'an in June, he began to build a printing factory. Zhu Zhicheng and others were ordered to go to Xi, Wuhan, Shanghai and other places to secretly buy printing presses and recruit skilled workers. In March, the Central Printing Factory was formally established in Liang Qingshan. Liberation, founded on April 24th of the same year, was printed by the Central Printing Factory. In May, the Central Printing Factory moved to Yan 'an Bell Tower (now near Yan 'an Post Office). In June 5438+10, the central printing house moved back to Liang Qingshan. Zhu Huamin, the first director of the Central Printing Factory. 1937 From September 9th, the Central Printing House changed the No.390th issue of New China Newspaper to lead printing (formerly mimeographed). The factory mainly undertakes the printing tasks of Xinhua Daily, Jiefang Daily, People, Today's News, China Workers, China Women, China Youth and China Culture. 1June, 938, in order to meet the needs of currency circulation in the border region market, the government of the border region decided to issue "Yan 'an Guanghua Store Price Voucher", which was printed by the central printing plant and mint.

The former site is an integral part of the former site of Liang Qingshan Revolution. On May 25th, 2006, it was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit. 19961June14th, which was announced by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee as a patriotic education base of national key cultural relics protection units.