Phoenix Publishing and Media has signed a new strategic 3-year publishing partnership with Springer. Springer and Phoenix Publishing and Media will jointly publish and disseminate China's best research results to global readers, share Chinese culture and academic thoughts with the world, and promote mutual understanding between the East and the West. The new co-publishing programme will focus on social sciences and humanities titles.

Phoenix Publishing and Media is expanding in scholarly publishing through collaborations with international partners including Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Brill. The first book in the publishing programme Dictionary of Chinese Cultural Knowledge, a total of 1411 entries covering six major aspects of ideology, social governance, literary history, art and aesthetics, human geography and artefacts science and technology, edited by Professor Xu Baofeng, was published in Chinese in 2021 by Jiangsu Phoenix Education Press. Springer will publish the English edition; and they intend to produce the German edition in the near future.