Tianjin Science & Technology Translation & Publishing Co. (TSTTPC), set up in 1979, serves as a foreign-oriented scientific and technological press with solid force of translation and edition.

TSTTPC devotes itself to high quality publication of academic books on science,engineering,agriculture, medicine, as well as architecture, economical management, language reference, self-help, health-care and popular science. For these twenty years, it presents more than two thousand of categories of books, with issue exceeding ten million and spreading over thirty provinces and cities, Hong Kong, Macao of China, USA, Japan, Singapore and other countries, winning prestige not only in China but also in the world.

Taking advantage of peculiarities on translation and edition of foreign works, TSTTPC has made great efforts to extend the scope of business for copyright trade. In 1998, the press set up International Rights Department to energetically initiate copyright trade. In recent years, TSTTPC has successfully launched a number of cooperation with many presses of USA, Britain, Japan, Germany, Singapore, as well as Hong Kong, Taiwan of China, making a success in publishing more than 400 excellent titles of co-publications and enjoying high social reputation with satisfied economical results. Some of the titles have won national and provincial prizes. For example, 8 Minutes in the Morning has won 2002 National Bestseller Book Award and Color Atlas of Differential Diagnosis in Exfoliative and Aspiration Cytopatholog has won the First Prize of Northern Ten Provinces Excellent Sci.-Tech. Book Award.

While importing quite a number of books with foreign copyrights, TSTTPC has also exported many books to the different parts of the world, playing an active role in promoting the scientific and cultural exchange between China and the world. Nowadays, TSTTPC has established steady and close contacts with many major foreign publishers, e.g. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Barnes and Noble Publishing Inc. McGraw-Hill,Els- evier, etc. TSTTPC will expand the copyright market in enterprising spirit and will, as always, warmly welcome constant and friendly cooperation with more publishers all over the world.