The primary and middle schools are the official venues for formal science education with textbooks playing a key role in the process of teaching. The Commercial Press (Shang Wu Yin Shu Guan) was the first publishing house in publishing and distributing science textbooks in China since late Qing Dynasty. A group of famous scholars and researchers had made contribution to translate and edit the science textbooks from UK, US and Japan. It has made an extraordinary contribution in science education from late Qing through the founding of People's Republic of China in 1949.

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