EDUCATIONAL SCIENCE PUBLISHING HOUSE LIMITED (ESPH), an influential publishing house specializing in education, is run by the China National Academy of Educational Sciences(CNAES) under the supervision of the Ministry of Education. Ever since its establishment in 1980, ESPH has been putting social benefit first, adhering to the purpose of “serving for educational decision-making, educational reform and development, educational research, and improving the teaching quality”, and the publishing principle of “carrying forward educational science, enriching educational research, spreading advanced knowledge in education at home and abroad, and facilitating China’s educational reform and development”. ESPH made great achievements socially and economically, formed an “educational science” publishing brand with broad influence and reputation, became a high-end platform for displaying achievements of China's outstanding scientific research. ESPH is acclaimed as “the Herald of Publishing Educational Theoretical Books”. It is awarded one of “Top 100 National Excellent Publishers” by the former General Administration of Press and Publication of China, and is also awarded the “National Advanced Publisher” by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television of The People’s Republic of China.
ESPH’s publications include educational theory, teacher education, higher education and vocational education, family education, teaching materials for primary and secondary schools, early childhood education and references for students to improve their quality as well as related audios, videos and digital products. So far, ESPH has published nearly 3,000 kinds of books per year, with the reprint rate exceeding 85%. Hundreds of kinds of titles have won the National Book Award, China’s Excellent Publication Award, etc.
In recent years, ESPH has gone into the process of increasing growth. ESPH's comprehensive economic scale is at the forefront of publishers in China. Looking ahead, ESPH is adhering to the strategy of innovation-driven, quality-based, human resource development, integrated development, and production-research collaboration, transforming into the development model of comprehensive education resource service, becoming a high-end platform for spreading educational theory, a professional platform for researching and developing educational resources, and a wisdom platform for servicing educational knowledge, making greater contributions to the development of national education.