Kim ÃÂá»Âng Publishing House () is the largest printing and publishing company in Vietnam mainly focused on education and comic-related books and magazines for children, teenager boys and adolescent girls. With more than a thousand titles of books published yearly, its books are offered to children of all ages, providing a wide range of collections and genres from literature, science, art, history to comics, pop-up and board books. The publishing company was named after a Kim ÃÂá»Âng, a young Viet Minh fighter who died in 1943.
Besides working with local authors and artists, Kim Dong publishing house has been expanding their co-operation with more than 70 foreign publishers to find new topics and book types. Amongst those publishers, they have been working closely with Dorling Kindersley, HarperCollins UK, Simon and Schuster UK, Dami International, Shogakukan Inc., Seoul Publishing House, etc.
Together with publishing and producing, Nhàxuất bản Kim ÃÂá»Âng is also the holder of many movements of books, comics, songs, poems, creation for the children. The publisher also takes part in many social events, such as the Doraemon Scholarship Fund, supporting maintain of Bàmẹ Viá»Ât Nam anh hùng (literally meaning Heroic Vietnamese Mother), building book collections for the poor Vietnamese communes, building schools for the people in mountainous regions, etc.
Currently, the Publisher's head office was located at the address: number 55, Quang Trung street, Hanoi. Its two branches are located at number 169, Trần Phú street, ÃÂàNẵng and at number 268, Nguyá» n ÃÂình Chiá»Âu street, Ho Chi Minh City.
The publishing house was founded on 17 June 1957. Its General Director is Mr Pham Quang Vinh. There are around a hundred staff, a thousand titles per annum, and 12,000,000 copies of books every month. Genres include literature, art, science, comics, etc.
Right after its establishment, the government of North Vietnam paid attention to the education of children, and considered arts and literature as the most important parts in the new generation's education.
In the years 1945âÂÂ1946, children's books were published at Hanoi by Há»Âi VÃÂn hóa Cứu quá»Âc (National Salvating Culture Association) and Nhàxuất bản Cứu quá»Âc (National Salvation Publishing house). After the outbreak of the First Indochina War, in 1948 the books were published at Viá»Ât Bắc war zone by the partnership of Tủ sách Kim ÃÂá»Âng (Kim ÃÂá»Âng Bookshelf) and "Hoa kháng chiến" Publisher. The war ended in 1954, and Tủ sách Kim ÃÂá»Âng continued to publish books as a part of Nhàxuất bản Thanh niên (Youth Publishing House).
Then, at the Second Letters and Arts Congress (February 1957), creating books for children was stated as a very important mission for Vietnam, hence in this congress people started to prepare for an establishment of a new publisher particularly serve the Vietnamese children and junior citizens.
Not very long after that, on March 16, 1957, a meeting about establishing a publisher for children was held at the head office of Há»Âi VÃÂn nghá» Viá»Ât Nam (Vietnam's Letters and Arts Association), with the participation of 12 people who then became the founders of the new publisher.
The new publisher was officially founded on June 17, 1957, with the name Nhàxuất bản Kim ÃÂá»Âng (Kim ÃÂá»Âng Publishing House). The name "Kim ÃÂá»Âng" was proposed by the writer Tô Hoài, as Kim ÃÂá»Âng is also the name of a famous teenage revolutionary martyr. The new publisher was considered as the successor of the former Kim ÃÂá»Âng Bookshelf. The first General Director was the well-known writer and drama-writer Nguyá» n Huy Tðá»Âng. The foundation of the publisher was announced in the daily newspapers on the next day.
The first head office of the publisher was at the number 55, Quang Trung street, Hai BàTrðng District, Hanoi.
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