Abstract: China’ s social transition has exerted a profound impact on the transition of publication. And the transition of publication has solemnly required the transition of the publishing professional education accordingly. This paper uses the analysis method of combining the longitudinal and horizontal section, divides the education of the edting and publishing which has a history of almost 30 years into three phases: start-up phase, development phase and transition phase, and proposes issues of the transition on the publishing professional education to be discussed of each stage.