Sun Qingguo, vice general manager of the Beijing Open Book Market Consulting Center, explains that more than 70 % of the books published in the mainland are teaching materials put out by provincial publishing houses. The remaining 30 % of the market is comprised of books on culture, popular science, literature, and the arts, most of which are published in Beijing.
北京開卷圖書市場研究所常務副總經理孫慶國分析，大陸圖書出版裡，課程和語言教材佔百分之七十以上，由各省級出版社瓜分；其他百分之三十真正具文化、輿論影響力的科技、文學、學術等類書籍，出版地大多在北京。