China Agriculture Press Co., Ltd. (CAP, subsidiary: Rural Readings Press) is a large comprehensive publishing company under the direct leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, PRC. It was founded in 1958 and awarded the honor as one of the first fifteen National Excellent Book Publishers.

The products of CAP cover publications, audio-visual products, electronic products, agricultural knowledge online platform. The publications are classified into the following categories: agricultural professional books (science and technology, economy and management, ancient classics, encyclopaedia, statistical reports, standards, magazines); popular books (leisure books, children’s books, educational books, literary and art books); agricultural textbooks (textbooks for agricultural colleges and vocational schools, training books for farmers).

By the end of 2019, 606 kinds of books and 724 kinds of textbooks published by CAP has won various national, provincial and ministerial levels awards. CAP makes significant contribution to agricultural development and the prosperity of rural culture of our country.

CAP has built up good co-operative relationship and copyright trade with some worldly famous publishing groups as Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Taylor, excellent publishing houses and influential copyright agencies from USA, UK, French, Spain, Japan. The cooperation publications have achieved prominent social and economic benefits. CAP translated and published many great books of veterinary, garden and children. Meanwhile, CAP’ books of tea culture, agricultural civilization, crop cultiva -tion, and agricultural economy were translated into foreign language and published in English-speaking countries, Japan, Vietnam and Kazakhstan.