Contributing 'Printing Power' To Cultural Prosperity

Based on the overall situation of the capital's "four centers" functional construction and closely following the theme of high-quality development, Beijing's printing industry is deeply integrated into the capital's urban strategy with precise service positioning, digital intelligence, greening, and integrated transformation as the starting point, and continues to make efforts in key areas such as serving major national activities, ensuring the rigid needs of urban operation, and innovating the development of cultural industries, so as to build a modern industrial system that is compatible with the core functions of the capital.

Beijing Imprint: Serve the overall situation and take on the mission

"Every major guarantee service is a verification of the comprehensive ability of the enterprise. Technically, we have to be bright, experienced bronzing masters can identify whether the process is in place in the roar of the machine, this process should accurately control the ironing accuracy, but also take into account the impact of temperature and pressure on the paper and hot stamping luster, the difference is thousands of miles. Cheng Cheng, general manager of Beijing Artron Art Printing Co., Ltd., introduced. In the past 30 years, Artron has adhered to the spirit of pursuing the ultimate and successfully completed a number of major projects of the Party and the state. In the face of zero error requirements and top-level confidentiality control, the company launched a confidentiality emergency mechanism, set up a special working group to coordinate multi-departmental coordination, and built a full-chain control with the goal of "zero omissions".

On the road of serving the core functions of the capital, Beijing printing enterprises have made contributions for a long time. Beijing Xinhua Printing Co., Ltd., formerly known as Ruijin Central Printing Factory, was born in 1931, and has a deep red gene. In 1949, the first volume of "Selected Works of Mao Zedong" was sent to Xinhua Printing in Beijing; In 1950, the commemorative issue of the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference was completed by Beijing Xinhua Printing; Since 1972, Beijing Xinhua has undertaken the task of printing materials for the National Two Sessions for more than 50 consecutive years. The company has printed more than 10 billion books and periodicals, covering many important books such as "Xi Jinping on Governing the Country" and "Fuxing Library".

In 2019, the core function guarantee system of Beijing publication printing service capital was officially put into operation. The Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee identified and released a list of more than 20 "guarantee enterprises", and organized evaluations every year, re-identified the guarantee enterprises the following year, established a performance evaluation mechanism, implemented dynamic management, and achieved "advancement and retreat".

"Since becoming a key guarantee enterprise with the core function of the capital in 2019, our support service capabilities have been continuously improved, with about 100 kinds (sets) printed in 2019, 23 million copies printed, and 236,700 reings of paper used, and by 2024, about 300 kinds (sets) have been printed, 64 million copies have been printed, and the amount of paper used has increased to 815,600 rears." Zhu Min, managing director of Beijing Hualian Printing Co., Ltd., introduced.

Guarantee services are seen in the details. Hualian Printing innovatively launched the "machine labeling + visual inspection + scanning and verification" solution to achieve zero errors in the labeling process; Ensure the quality of binding through high and low temperature cyclic tensile tests; Independently developed the "one book, one code" traceability system to realize the whole process control of "book-box-pallet-vehicle", which not only ensures accurate distribution, but also builds a solid line of defense for copyright protection.

Industrial leap: digital intelligence transformation, kinetic energy conversion

Improving the level of modernization with the first good standard, accelerating the construction of digital workshops and smart factories, and accelerating the construction of an industrial system with high-quality production capacity supply, advanced technology and safety, green integration and openness, Beijing's printing industry has jumped to a new level.

In 2023, the National Press and Publication Administration issued the "Pilot Work Plan for the Digital Development and Reform of the Printing Industry", proposing to promote the development of on-demand digital printing and implement printing intelligent manufacturing projects. In 2024, the "Implementation Plan for the Digital Transformation of Beijing's Manufacturing Industry (2024-2026)" was released, proposing that Beijing will cultivate and select smart factories and digital workshops in Beijing, cultivate a number of intelligent manufacturing demonstration factories and excellent scenarios, and set a number of typical benchmarks for digital transformation. In 2025, the National Press and Publication Administration issued the "Three-Year Action Plan for the Digitalization of the Printing Industry (2025-2027)", which clearly proposes to achieve breakthroughs in key core technologies of printing.

Policies have been released one after another, and Beijing printing enterprises have made continuous breakthroughs in digital intelligence transformation.

"Since 2018, we have introduced visual inspection, automatic palletizing robots and other equipment through equipment and process optimization to achieve automation and digital improvement, and significantly increase production efficiency and per capita output value." Yao Song, head of Beijing Dingjia Century Printing Co., Ltd., introduced. On this basis, enterprises have added a digital management and control platform, refined the management dimension, and promoted the virtuous circle of production from "experience-driven" to "data-driven".

"Our smart factory construction has entered a new stage, equipment automation, three-dimensional warehouses, etc. are only the foundation, and now we are more focused on the information process of the whole factory, strengthening data connectivity, collection and analysis, and assisting decision-making with data." Li Yanqiu, chairman of Beijing Shengtong Printing Co., Ltd., said. At present, relying on the Shengtong publishing service cloud platform, the company has opened up eight major production bases in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and Shanghai, integrated multiple sets of management systems, and realized the digitalization of the whole process of order processing, production scheduling and quality control, increasing the order processing speed by 30% and shortening the production cycle by 20%.

Green and low-carbon: build a solid foundation and highlight the background

Green has become the background color of the high-quality development of printing enterprises in Beijing. In recent years, Beijing's printing industry has continued to improve its green development policy system, and coordinated to promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion and growth. The Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee has set up the "Beijing Publication Printing Enterprise Green Development Incentive Fund" to support the green and intensive development of Beijing publication printing enterprises.

In order to improve the green ability of the printing industry, the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee organized the environmental protection governance performance evaluation of publication printing enterprises. Through the evaluation, the number of A-level enterprises representing the country's leading level of environmental governance performance increased from 12 in 2023 to 17 in 2024, a year-on-year increase of 41%.

Since 2016, Beijing Dingjia Century Printing Co., Ltd. has built a distributed photovoltaic power generation system in three phases, achieving an annual power generation of about 2 million kWh and an annual carbon reduction of more than 1,000 tons. At the same time, the factory workshop is fully equipped with LED lighting, and intensive measures such as centralized ink supply, air supply, humidification treatment, and circulation and cooling of dampening fluid and ink rollers are implemented. At present, the company continues to invest tens of millions of yuan in green technology transformation every year. In the view of Dingjia Printing, green production is not only a development opportunity, but also a strategic choice for active optimization. By effectively reducing energy costs and improving resource utilization efficiency, enterprises can effectively obtain "green profits" and experience the economic benefits brought by environmental protection practices.

After more than ten years of exploration, Beijing Hualian Printing Co., Ltd. has built a full-chain green management model of "source reduction + process control + end treatment + testing and inspection". In the product research and development stage, the company focuses on promoting low ink level design, reducing the use of plastic, and adopting simple binding from the perspective of carbon reduction, reducing unnecessary processes and developing green products. Since the establishment of the energy performance appraisal system in 2015, the company has continued to conduct statistical analysis of energy consumption, find out the carbon emission base, and build an energy management platform to realize digital management of energy consumption. By identifying and improving high-energy-consuming links in a timely manner and formulating ESG reports, Hualian Printing continues to improve its ESG capacity building.

Based on the functions of the capital, Beijing's printing industry is guided by the first good standard, driven by a digital intelligence engine, and built a solid foundation with a green background.