Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House is a national level professional fine arts publishing house, founded in 1952. The publishing house is specialized in the publication of painting albums on fine arts and photography, periodicals, comic strips, pictures, wall calendars, life books, travel reading materials, reference books, and tool books. Over the past sixty years, the publishing house has always followed the principle of "spreading knowledge and accumulating culture". Relying on its own efforts, Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House has published more than 18 thousand titles, printed over 6 billion copies, and received about 200 awards at home and abroad. The large album of paintings named “Chinese Art Work”(16 volumes), “Chinese Ceram Work”, “Four main museums’ collections” (including Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing and Liaoning), “Four Monks’ painting”, “Chinese Art History”, “Chen Hongshou”, “The World Painting Collections ”, “Balthus”, “He Youzhi‘s painting 360 professions” and so on all have top-ranking qualities and great reputations both at home and abroad, which are welcomed by plenty of readers. When it comes to popular literatures, New Year pictures, posters and picture-story books of Shanghai People Fine Art Publisher have the largest quantity and influence among the other Chinese Art Publishers. For example, the poster “Long Live Chairman Mao” has won the billions of people’s preferences because of its delicate pictures, thus having been printed several million times. And some picture-story books, for instance, “The Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, “The Railway Guerrilla”, “Great Changes In A Mountain Village”, “Reconnaissance Across The YangZi River”, “Monkey Subdues White Skeleton Demon” and so on are more than popular among the public. Going through many decades, the publisher still sells well at the present.

While having a great job in publishing, the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House also targeted to train a large number of talented and creative people in art publishing. A lot of famous artists used to work in the publishing house. Such as Shifa Chen, Danzha Liu, Roujian Shen, Yeping Ying, Hongben Zhao, Yunjie Yu, Xiwen Min, etc.

Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House owns the department of art, photography, teaching material, comics, cooperation and international editorial, and "Lujiazui", "Preppy", "Traveler", "Comic" and "Hong Man" periodical editorial department.

In recent years, based on maintaining its original characteristics, Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House has established its developing direction of becoming the first-class comprehensive fine arts publisher in the nation. It tries to achieve a large percentage in the market on design books, basic fine arts reading materials, comic strips and children’s books, gradually enhances its influence and core competitiveness, and constantly maintains and promotes its brand and image.