Hunan Book Company is a leading wholesaler of trade books, audio & video products, and periodicals to booksellers, librarians, and specialty retailers in China's distribution industry. It operates subsidiary 103 chain bookstore companies including 14 super bookstores, 443 bookshops, 51, 000 square meter distribution center, supplying related products for 3956 individual bookstalls around Hunan Province. The company was found in August of 1949 as name of Hunan Xinhua Bookstore, and obtained the authority of import & export in 1993, realized sales of about USD252 million during fiscal 2002, and assets of about USD217 million at the end of 2002. But being big doesn't mean we're unresponsive. For more than 54 years, we have been innovators in developing new ways to meet and exceed the needs and expectations of our customers and suppliers. Customers from all over China rely on us for fast, easy order fulfillment.

As obtaining WTO membership, China's marketplace of book and related products is getting open wider and wider, we will continuously carry on self-publishing strategy to publish under our own imprint for exclusive sale through its retail stores and nation wide mail order catalogs.

Hunan Book Company has strong desire to cooperate with a leading publisher, as like you, our request for copyright will be good for us to have the ability to lower its merchandise costs and pass on a portion of the savings to its customers while providing great book to them.

I believe our cooperation will be the mutual benefits situation.