Study On The Political Nature Of Publishing In Contemporary China

The publishing cause in contemporary China is an essential component of socialistic cause with Chinese features. It bears the historical responsibility of building and creating advanced socialistic culture and is playing a particular role in disseminating culture, bringing forth new knowledge, seeking truth, popularizing science, and revitalizing our nation.Study on the political nature of publishing is of great significance, which is embodied not only in that the publishing industry holds great responsibility for maintaining the nation's security and safety, but also in that it helps us to increase the ability of confronting political challenge from the western countries, helps to promote the growth of professionals in publishing industry, and is vital for the existence and development of the publishing cause.The publishing cause has class nature and party nature, that is, political nature, whose basic characters are embodied in superstructure, class relationships, state power and strategic instruction. Authencity and tendency is the two basic characters of the publishing cause, and they are interrelated with the political nature. Study on political nature of publishing industry mainly set foot in national ideology, laws and regulations, civil rights, press freedom, as well as influence on the general public.Important issues of political nature in publishing covers the following: issues relating to the Party, leaders of the nation, unification of China, relationship between mainland and Taiwan, and issues about the ethnic minority and religion.Situation about publishing in ideological field is good, nevertheless, some problems, which can not be ignored, still exist: inadequate understanding and theoretical study for political nature; some publishers have published books with political problems; the administrating and operating system s don't fit the new situation. Many factors lead to this, such as combat between the Occidental and the Western countries in a long period; low ideological and political quality of personnel working in publishing industry; and negative effect of the market economy.Vigorous measures should be taken to enforce the political nature building for publishing cause. Political leadership of the Party and policy adjustment are especially important, while enhancing the political quality of the personnel working in publishing industry and the administrator's ability of political administration cannot be overlooked.