Nanjing Amity Printing Co., Ltd. () is the largest producer of

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, and one of the largest in the world. It is a

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with

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and

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History

In its first year (1988), it printed 500,000 Bibles on a press donated by UBS. Since 1988, it has published Bibles in

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and in several ethnic minority languages, as well as in many other languages for export. It is China's only legal printer of Bibles. The APC has so far published more than 100 million Bibles. Most of the Bibles printed are the

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(, 1919), the Chinese Bible translation used by the Protestant churches, or the less commonly accepted but more modern Today's Chinese Version. Recently the Pastoral Bible used by the Catholic churches has also been printed here. All Chinese Bibles are distributed not by the state-run bookstore chains (such as

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), but through the network of officially registered Protestant churches. Since China's adoption of the New Regulations on Religious Affairs in 2018 that banned online bookstores from selling Bibles, the APC has been facing difficulty in printing Chinese Bibles. This has caused a shortage of

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in Hong Kong.

References

{{reflist Companies based in Nanjing Protestantism in China Printing companies of China