FLTRP in-house audio-visual production operation is equipped with facilities for audio tapes editing, film shooting, production and technical back-up. Such state-of-the-art audio-visual facilities operated by a team of experienced professionals plus ample space for telecasting and shooting have paved the way for future corporate expansion and development.
The young and energetic production and distribution divisions are another pride of FLTRP. Composed of experienced professionals and graduates trained in publishing management, the production division is computerizing the whole production process from typesetting, designing, printing to binding. The distribution division, consisting of young and enthusiastic salesmen, has successfully expanded our national and international network of distribution into over 2,000 outlets. It is currently seeking to establish varied direct sales networks with a view to building up our own independent sales operations. This is also a strong proof of our strength and potential.
FLTRP started to develop its electronic publications since 1997 and in the December of the same year it took a big step forward in its development, production, publication and distribution of the electronic outputs by the acquisition of Beijing Silver Disc Electronic Technology Co. Ltd. Now the newly established Multimedia Division has started working its way to the objective of becoming the biggest producer of foreign language teaching materials on CD-ROM and securing a fair share in the market of other electronic formats.
FLTRP pays constant attention to the development and promotion of the foreign language teaching and research, making every effort to tap new publishing resources. We have worked in close association with a number of academic societies, setting up secretariats for China University English Speaking Association, China Association for Intercultural Communication, Beijing Translator’s Association, etc. as well as northern offices for China University Foreign Language Teaching Guiding Committee. We have also successfully organized large-scale influential activities such as “FLTRP Cup National English Debating Competition” and “International Conference on Globalisation, Pluralisation and Intercultural Communication”.
FLTRP sees the importance of keeping up with the fast changing technologies and newest concepts in the publishing industry, constantly optimizing not only its management and operational systems but also the infrastructure frames. The FLTRP Tower, installed with state-of-the-art facilities such as computer networks, central air conditioning, security check system and fire-fighting equipment, is hailed as “the No 1 Publisher’s Building in China”. It was constructed solely through self-funding, with a total investment of RMB 120 million. With a floorage of 17,000 square meters, the tower has varied functions, serving as the site for the production of books and audio-video products, recreational activities as well as providing dining, lodging accomodations.
FLTRP Readers’ Club recommends to foreign language learners in the form of well-received membership the best foreign language books and audio-video products. The Club also offers training programs, making plans for the members to learn a foreign language for their lifetime. In addition, the Club will publish and distribute special books to meet the needs of the members and provide them with better service.
FLTRP is an academic publisher affiliated to Beijing Foreign Studies University. It was established in 1979 and merged with Beijing Foreign Language Audiovisual Press,another publisher attached to Beijing Foreign Studies University,in 1995.
Taking as our task the promotion and popularization of foreign language teaching and research in China, we are now expanding and fast becoming a scholarly and educational publishing group. 300 million copies of FLTRP titles have been published and distributed since our establishment, which tells the story of our unquestionable social impact and is a proof of the well established reputation and scope of our publications.
FLTRP publishes in a widest range of foreign languages as compared with other publishers in the country. Besides publications in English, Russian, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Arabic, we also publish textbooks and reference books in Esperanto, Swedish, Czech, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Albanian, Sinhalese, Swahili, Cambodian, Laotian, Thai, Myanmese, Malay and Indonesian, as well as Chinese textbooks for foreign learners.
The FLTRP staff is characterized by their youthful vitality. Most of its 450 members are young or middle-aged specialised personnel, among whom are a large group of young talented editors. All of the editors, more than forty in number, have obtained their Ph. D or MA degrees in foreign languages from distinguished universities at home, and quite a few editors have received training overseas. Such a strong contingent is a sure guarantee for our future development. In 1998, FLTRP was chosen as a “fine publisher” by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the CPC and the State Press Bureau.
FLTRP is one of China’s leading publishers specialising in literature relating to foreign language teaching and research, including textbooks, dictionaries, readers, teaching and learning aids and academic works.
FLTRP also publishes a number of distinguished journals and magazines. Foreign Language Teaching and Research has been always been regarded as the most authoritative magazine in the foreign language academic circle in China. Other magazines such as English Language Learning, French Language Learning, Russian Language Learning, German Language Learning and Teaching Russian in China are all well received by virtue of their successful blending of the academic and the popular. Teaching English in China, a journal enjoying international fame, is published in close association with the British Council. It is a sole English journal devoted to English language teaching at colleges and middle school levels. Also enjoying popularity is the special column World Cultures, a joint product by FLTRP and China Reading Weekly. It signifies our commitment to providing products of high quality, rich humanistic content and high readability as an academic publisher. FLTRP will continue its efforts to offer a balanced array of books and magazines and journals to readers of all levels.
FLTRP benefits from a large bank of authors. Hundreds of authors from both home and abroad have left their names on the covers of “FLTRP” publications, among whom dozens of professors are our reliable mainstay. Whether they are distinguished senior experts or lesser known young scholars, they are all our faithful friends.
FLTRP was one of the first Chinese publishers to go in for international copyright cooperation. Starting from the early 1980s up till the present, we have had over 400 cooperative projects.
