Hao Zhensheng

Hao Zhensheng, born in 1953 and a native of Wanrong, Shanxi, holds a master's degree from the Department of Philosophy at Peking University and has long been engaged in publishing research. He served as deputy director and then director of the China Research Institute of Publishing Science, and as president of the Chinese Academy of Press and Publication. He is currently president of the China Editors' Society and dean of the Digital Publishing and Media Research Institute at Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication. His research covers the broad trends of the publishing industry and comparisons with international publishing. He has edited or contributed to numerous annual reports on the development of China's publishing industry, tracking yearly progress in both traditional and digital publishing, and has also followed international publishing conditions and forecasts. He has addressed issues of nationwide reading and contributed to the Blue Book on National Reading. His other works include On the Division of Labor and Studies in Publishing Cultural Rationality. In 2006 he received the Taofen Newcomer Award in Publishing. His works fall mainly within culture, language and writing, and law as related to publishing research.