People's Education Press

Up to 2023, PEP has compiled and published twelve sets of national primary and secondary school textbooks, as well as many books for international Chinese language learners.

• Parent — China Education Publishing and Media Group (Ministry of Education of China） • Headquarters — No. 17, South Street, Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing • Publications — Textbooks, workbooks, and teaching and research magazines for primary and secondary schools in mainland China • Url — http: www.pep.com.cn • Illustration — The headquarters of the People's Education Press in Weigong, China.

On December 1, 1950, the People's Education Press was formally established, with its name written by Chairman Mao personally. The first president and editor-in-chief of the press was Ye Shengtao. During the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, the People's Education Press was forced to stop working, primary and secondary school textbooks were compiled and published by provinces and cities instead. In 1983, the Curriculum and Teaching Materials Research Institute was established, with its name written by Deng Xiaoping. In September 2005, People's Education Press moved to a nearly 50,000 square meter building located in Zhongguancun. On December 18, 2010, the "China Education Publishing and Media Group" was established, and People's Education Press became a core member of the group. On May 5, 2018, Tencent and People’s Education Press officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Beijing. On November 29, 2020, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping wrote back to some retirees of the People’s Education Press, extending his greetings and urging efforts to create high quality teaching materials. As of 2023, the People's Education Press has compiled, researched and published twelve sets of national primary and secondary school textbooks and multiple sets of vocational education textbooks and normal college textbooks. And in 2023, there were more than 1,300 employees. The People's Education Research Institute was established in the same year.

• In May 2022, a reader pointed out that the illustration style of the mathematics textbook used by People's Education Press since 2012 was weird, the characters in the illustrations all had small and wide-set eyes, their facial features were seriously unbalanced, their eyes were dull, and there were characters with crooked mouth, tongue sticking out and in bunny girl outfit, which sparked heated discussions on the Internet. After a three-month investigation, the Chinese Ministry of Education announced penalties for 27 people, including the editor-in-chief. The illustrations of the math textbooks have been recreated.