With a long historical tradition of "life, reading and new knowledge" as the publishing purpose, it publishes Chinese and foreign humanities and Social Sciences translations, as well as college textbooks, professional reference books and practical knowledge books. "Shanghai Sanlian academic library", "series of original works of Finance and law" and "world comments" constitute a strong brand of academic and cultural publishing; "Shanghai Sanlian textbook series", "learning organization resource bank" and practical economic management series, economic and cultural professional reference books show the distinctive characteristics of professional disciplines; The series of popular psychology and cultural life have expanded the new knowledge field of youth books; At the same time, it collected the fine works of western culture and constructed an exploratory and forward-looking series of western academic Classics (including religion, sociology, politics and Economics). Since its resumption in 1986, the society has published more than 2000 kinds of books, of which more than 100 have won various awards including the China Book Award, and a variety of books have been purchased overseas for copyright. The revised book city magazine is a high-grade reading magazine widely recognized by the intellectual community.