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State Protestant Church’s publishing arm makes milestone

On 18 July 2016, the Amity Printing Company produced its 150 millionth Bible, marking a new milestone in the history of the Amity Foundation. The first Amity Bible was printed in 1987. It took 20 years to complete the first 50 million copies of Bibles. Since then, Amity Printing Company has improved its production techniques and printed the second 50 million Bibles during the next five years and the third batch of Bibles within the last three years. In 2015, Amity manufactured 13.86 Bibles which marked a new record since its. In June 2016, the monthly output of Bibles with both hard-cover and paper-back binding exceeded two million copies, marking a new record as well.

Those achievements could only be reached with the support and encouragement of international partners, in particular the United Bible Societies. Amity Printing Company adheres to a people-oriented and harmonious development management concept and is committed to the mission of “Serving the Chinese Church, Overseas Churches, the Chinese society and the Chinese people

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