中国人民大学出版社成立于1955年，是中华人民共和国成立后的第一家大学出版社。1982年被教育部确定为全国高等学校文科教材出版中心，是中国最重要的高校教材和学术著作出版基地之一。

　　中国人民大学出版社依托中国人民大学的综合优势，始终高扬人文社会科学的旗帜，把“出教材学术精品，育人文社科英才”作为自己的出版理念，实施精品战略，以优秀的出版物传播先进文化。建社近50年来，出版社已累计出书万余种，出版了一大批具有文化积累、文化传播价值的优秀教材和学术著作。人大出版社强化策划意识、市场意识，着力培育核心竞争力，提高出版社的整体实力和社会影响力，把出版工作同我国教育事业、文化事业的发展，同我国经济、社会的发展紧密结合，形成了鲜明的出版特色，成为高校人文社会科学出版领域的重要力量。每年出新书900余种，发行码洋5亿多元，已经成为具有图书、期刊、音像和电子出版物等多媒体兼营的大型综合性出版社。

　　在新世纪，人大出版社正在实施新的发展战略，即以自身特色为本，走内部扩张之路，以人文、政法、经济、管理、外语、教育、考试图书为支点，自我发展、自我更新，使人大出版社成为一个以人文社会科学出版物为主要特色，包括若干个专业出版社，具有图书、期刊、音像、电子出版物综合出版能力，具有集团规模的现代出版产业，把人大出版社真正建设成为一个现代化、国际化、多媒体经营的现代出版集团。

　　Speech by president of China Renmin University Press

　　China Renmin University Press was founded in 1955. As a university press enjoying a high prestige in China, it is not only among the earliest of its kind established after the founding of the People's Republic of China, but also a publishing center of college textbooks designated by the Ministry of Education. It publishes over 600 kinds of new books every year, covering high-level academic compositions, periodicals, video products and textbooks for entrance examination, certificate education, adult education, training, graduate and postgraduate education, modern remote education and so on.

　　Publishing elaborate academic works and textbooks, cultivating talents in arts and social sciences" has always been the goal pursued by China Renmin University Press. The Press has published a large quantity of excellent books that are valuable to cultural accumulation and dissemination, winning a high reputation both home and abroad. The textbooks published by this Press have been widely used at all kinds of schools in China, many of which have been reprinted for several times with a circulation ranging from 100 thousand to several million copies, and some even have exceeded ten million copies.

　　It is a principle of this Press to absorb foreign achievements with an open view and to promote exchanges and cooperation with foreign counterparts. Collected Works of Aristotle (10 Volumes), which won the highest National Prize for Best Publications, represents its ability in publishing foreign academic works. The publication of two large series of translated works, namely the Translated Works of Economic Science and the Translated Business Administration Classics, which reflect the latest achievements in western economics and business administration, has exerted a very strong social impact in China. In the past decade, the Press has imported and exported the copyrights of hundreds of books and maintained long-term close business relations with overseas presses and companies.

　　With a seven-fold increase of its sales, China Renmin University Press has witnessed a fast, sound and sustainable development in the past few years, winning spectacular profit and admiration from all quarters. At the beginning of a new century, the Press has been engaged in implementing its trans-century development strategy. By sticking to maintaining its own characteristics and taking advantage of rich experience in publishing books of humanities, politics and law, finance and banking, foreign languages and education, the Press is dedicated to developing itself into a first-class publishing group containing several specialized publishing houses that are capable of publishing books, periodicals, audio-visual materials and electronic publications on a large scale and playing a role in the international market.

　　China Renmin University Press sincerely hopes to carry out extensive business cooperation with other presses both home and abroad and will persevere in its efforts to present more and better publications to all readers.