The second edition of the Encyclopedia of China has been published by the Encyclopedia of China Publishing House recently.
The new edition, which has been compiled over 14 years, draws on a corpus of 32 volumes with 60 million Chinese characters, 60,000 items, 30,000 pictures and 1,000 maps.
The Encyclopedia of China was the first large-sized comprehensive encyclopedia in China. Its first edition was published in 1993.