"In addition to the publishing centers of Beijing and Shanghai, publishers in Jiangsu, Shandong, Liaoning, Hubei, Hunan, and even Yunnan and Guangxi are becoming forces to be reckoned with." As Chen puts it, mainland China's publishing industry has entered its own "Warring States Period."
「而除了北京、上海兩個出版中心，江蘇、山東、遼寧、湖北、湖南，甚或雲南、廣西區域的出版實力，都不容忽視，」陳信元認為，大陸的出版事業已然進入戰國時代。