Company Overview

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        Established in 1991 and registered in Changsha, Hunan Province, Green Apple is the first enterprise providing digitizing service in China. Green Apple mainly engages in the development, publishing and marketing of electronic publications and database products. During the past 22 years, Green Apple has covered and accomplished over 100 large digitalization projects at home and abroad. With its focus transferring from simple produce processing to diverse operation, Green Apple has become a leading digitization supplier and content provider in China.

        Green Apple now has over 1300 employees, including professionals in computer, foreign languages, Library Information, Chinese language, arts and other fields. With 5 sole proprietorships and joint-ventures in Hunan, Beijing, Shandong and Hong Kong, Green Apple covers production area of over 32000 sqm, and annual production capacity of 20 billion Chinese characters. All of these make Green Apple the largest production digitization center in China.

        One of Green Apple’s major wealth and advantages is those employees with rich processing experience and proficient operation skills as obtained after long-term training and practice. A stable staff team could ensure the accumulative and continuous production skill and experience, and could ensure product quality and could achieve design functions. 

　　After years of technical improvement and efforts, Green Apple has formed its mature and unique digitalization production techniques and perfected work flow. Therefore, Green Apple could undertake many product programs with diverse technical requirements. With a couple of unique digitalization production techniques, Green Apple could now complete many large-size databases and E-publications with diverse function demands.

        Besides developing domestic digitalization market, Green Apple is also actively participating in digitalization projects in such Countries and regions as US, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and HK. In international competition environment, Green Apple is continuously intensifying technical development and technical cooperation, so as to enhance its competitiveness in international bidding and technical negotiations. To meet different requirement in global market, Green Apple has developed multilingual database search platform, data quality control platform and layout restructure technology, which make Green Apple’s digitalization processing technology reach internationally advanced level. Awarded the Top 100 China’s Emerging Service Provider in 2009, Green Apple becomes a major force of service outsourcing enterprise in China and has topped the list of “Top 10 Changsha Service Outsourcing Enterprises” in two consecutive years.

         In terms of development strategy, Green Apple always follow and adheres to the balanced development between product processing and product publishing, so as to command both domestic market and international market, and to continuously accumulate publication resources. According to an incomplete statistics, Green Apple has accumulated 20 billion Chinese Characters, 20 thousand audios, 100 thousand pictures and 400 thousand songs. After review and examination, those resources can be used in diverse digital publishing. Green Apple has solely invested or participated in the publishing of over 100 major E-publications. Green Apple has the publishing right of electronic edition of main domestic newspaper such as People’s Daily, Guangming Daily, Shun Pao, and classic theory works as “Mao Zedong’s Selected Works”, “Deng Xiaoping’s Selected Works” and “Jiang Zemin’s Works”, as well as thousands of E-books.

        "Arts resource database of National Center for Performing Arts, “Mao Zedong’s Selected Works”, thePeople’s Daily electronic edition (full-text with image), “China Electric Power Encyclopedia” are the representative digitalization publications of Green Apple. This Center is awarded with many honors and prizes, including “recognition award for national electronic publications”, “Chinese excellent culture award”, and “Chinese journalistic science & technology award”. The digital publications of Green Apple have become China’s mainstream digital products. In 2009, Green Apple is listed in “Top10 Changsha Culture Enterprise”.

　　Commercial activity is an important channel for Green Apple to expand its product market. It has participated in over 100 domestic product fairs, over 20 international expos on books, E-publications and database products, including HK Book Expo, Japan Book Expo, US East Asia Book Expo, Europe Book Expo. Covering over 20 countries and regions, a mature international sales network is formed.

         Seeing the challenge as opportunity in 2008 global financial crisis, Green Apple made great effort to expand its international service outsourcing market, and gained remarkable profits. And after Green Apple moved to Changsha Qingzhuhu International Exhibition Center in July 2009, its scale was greatly increased. As Hunan Provincial Government and Changsha Municipal Government have attached to Green Apple high attention and supports, Green Apple has stepped into the fastest development period since it was founded.

        The Changsha Green Apple Data City infrastructure project, prepared for 5 years, was launched in 2010 and listed in the key construction projects of Changsha city.  As Itcovers an area of 170,000 sqm, construction area of 480,000 sqm and has a capacity of 50,000 employees, Green Apple Data City will be a digitalization infoport combining information collection, data processing, classifying, publishing, spreading and updating. It will be the center of service outsourcing industry and culture information industry in the central and western regions of China, driving the informationization development of China and the world with its enormous power. 

　　Main Business
　　Digitization products producing and outsourcing service
　　Green Apple is capable of producing digital products including web pages, electronic books, journals and newspapers, mobile phone publications and database products, etc. Also we can provide outsourcing service on digitization for foreign enterprises and governments.
　　E-resources marketing
　　E-resources developed by Green Apple include electronic books, journals and newspapers and databases, with the distribution channels covering Internet, direct selling and regional agencies.
　　Chinese computer corpus
　　Major clients include Microsoft、Baidu and Toshiba.
　　Electronic publication reading platform(software system)
　　Including desktop edition, tablet PC edition, the mobile version.
　　Data encryption service
　　Including data encryption software, mobile phone privacy protection software.