Southern Publishing and Media Co., Ltd. operates as a publishing company in China. It operates through six divisions: Publishing, Distribution, Material Trading, Printing, Newspaper, and Others. The company publishes and distributes books, newspapers, and electronic audio-visual publications. It also involved in the printed materials business, such as primary and secondary school textbooks, teaching aids, and general books; media business, which includes digital publishing and mobile media, distribution, retail, printing material sales, cross-media operation, and other publishing and media; and publishing paper supply and sales business, comprising sales of paper and paper raw materials, which includes printing equipment, printing consumables, printing inks, printing packaging materials, CD PC materials, cultural paper, packaging paper, UV varnish, hot melt glue and paper-making fungicides, and other products. The company was formerly known as Guangdong Southern Publishing and Media Ltd. Southern Publishing and Media Co., Ltd. was founded in 2008 and is based in Guangzhou, China.