The publishing education has always been a strategic task that the Party and the
state attach great importance to. Since the founding of New China, the training of publishing
talents has gone through different stages, such as initial stage, institutionalization, standardization
and specialization. The talent training in New China has some main characteristics: from cultivating
publishing official to cultivating publishing talents; the three elements of “industry, university and
research” are changing in real time and dynamically, highlighting the characteristics of different
talent training programs and their characteristics of the times; publishing has met the necessary
conditions for an independent discipline, and the Party and the state have treated it as more and
more important. Finally, look back on history and stand on the present, provide some valuable
enlightenment for future publishing discipline construction and talent training: always adhere to the
principle of “the Party manages talents” and strengthen the top-level design of education; define
“what kind of people to cultivate, how to cultivate people and for whom”; talent training activities
and discipline construction must be practice-oriented; differentiated publishing talent training
mode and curriculum system should be established.
