The Amity Foundation is celebrating the production of 50 million Bibles by the Amity Printing Company (APC). The celebration will be held in Nanjing on 8 December to commemorate this landmark of Bible printing in China. Representatives of churches in China, the United Bible Societies, ecumenical partners and representatives of government departments will attend the event.
The celebration is highlighted by the signing of an agreement between the Amity Printing Company and the United Bible Societies (UBS) to extend their close cooperation as a joint venture for another ten years. The current agreement runs out in June 2008. A joint venture between APC and UBS started in 1987.
The 50 millionth Bible rolled off the press on 11 September. (By this time, an additional 9 million New Testaments had been printed as well.) 43 million copies of the complete Bible were produced for mainland China, among them copies in Braille and eight minority languages, while the remaining 7 million were exported to over 60 countries around the world. Zhang Liwei, Amity’s associate general secretary, calls this event a “miracle which God has made possible in China”.
Next year, the Amity Printing Company will move to a larger site, where state-of-the-art printing equipment will ensure higher output while quality standards remain as high as before. Qiu Zhonghui, general secretary of the Amity Foundation and chair of the board of APC, said in an interview, “We are grateful for the ecumenical partnership with Christian brothers and sisters around the world forged by this joint venture between Amity and UBS”. He went on to confirm that the Printing Company is ready to print Bibles for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing if orders come in from the church in China. The Amity Printing Company is the only enterprise in China which prints Bibles.
I am interested in knowing what translation the Bibles are being printed in.
Thanks for your interest, James Martin! The Amity Printing Press has published Bibles for the non-Chinese market in lots of different languages, as well as for the Chinese market in Braille (for the blind) and eight languages of ethnic minorites living in China, plus Chinese-and-English bilingual editions. For details, you can contact the Printing Press: apcexport@amityprinting.com and apc@amityprinting.com
“I am interested in knowing what translation the Bibles are being printed in.”
-Perhaps you also are interested to know which translation versions are being used in English and Chinese. In China, you can find Amity-printed Bibles in the New Revised Standard Version and also Good News Translation. In Chinese, there is the Chinese Union Bible and also Today’s Chinese Version.
Please send a price list of your Bibles in simplified Chinese and those in bi-lingual Chinese-English.
Thank you!
For a price list and other details, please contact the Printing Press directly: apcexport@amityprinting.com and apc@amityprinting.com
Thank you!
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I am interested in knowing what translation the Bibles are being printed in.
If you have questions concerning the printing and distribution of Bibles, please contact the Amity Printing Press directly (you can e-mail in English):
Nanjing Amity Printing Co., Ltd.
287 Jingbo Road, Donshan Town, Jiangning
Nanjing, Jiangsu
China
Zip Code：211100
Phone: + 86 (25) – 86872877
Fax：+ 86 (25) – 57928001
Company E-mail: apc@amityprinting.com
Sales Department E-mail: apcexport@amityprinting.com
How many of the Bibles are exported out of China and sold overseas?
“To date, the company has produced 41 million bibles for distribution in China and 9 million bibles for overseas distribution. The 9 million bibles exported have been printed in 75 different languages, including English, German, Spanish, French together with many African languages.”
More details are found in the article on this website: “Made-in-China Bibles for the 2008 Olympics”:
http://www.amityfoundation.org/wordpress/?p=138
the terminology “41 million Bibles FOR distribution in China” is an interesting use of words. One wonders why it doesn’t say “41 million Bibles WERE distributed in China”. This is probably where concerns rise as to whether the Bibles are actually getting to Christians in China. In particular Christians outside of the official Three Self Church. Would you answer this concern please?
Thanks for pointing this out, Rob Holding. 41 million Bibles have in fact been distributed in China. Bibles are being sold all over the country to members of registered churches, unregistered churches and non-Christians alike. You go to a church bookstore/bookstall and buy a Bible, it’s as easy as that. -Oliver Engelen, Amity Hong Kong
i chat with someone about this 50 mllionth bible. we wonder what will be the form of the 150 millions bible….digital form
Congratulations to Amity? I was present when the new location of the Amity printing press was dedicated. How many bibles did Amity print in the last twelve months?
The volume of Bibles produced yearly by the Amity Printing Press has been published as a table and a graph:
http://www.amityprinting.com/cms/EArticle/xwzx/gsyw/200807/131.html
They promote the bible, yet the outlaw, destroy, and burn Falun Gong books and torture to death the practitioners!
I WILL LIKE TO VISIT THE PRINTING PRESS WITH MY SENIOR PASTOR.
AND PLACE ORDER FOR REGULAR BIBLE SUPPLY TO US.
WE WILL LIKE TO WORSHIP WITH A CHINEESE ENGLISH CHURCH ALSO.
REGARDS,
EDU, A