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The Shanghai People's Press is a printing and publishing house based in Shanghai. It was established in 1972, replacing the Shanghai Publishing Bureau which was reinstated on January 1, 1978. [1]

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References

  1. Erik Baark (September 1980). "The Structure of Technological Information Dissemination in China: Publication of Scientific and Technological Manuals, 1970-77". The China Quarterly (83): 510–534.