Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication

Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication (BIGC) is a comprehensive university under the joint jurisdiction of the State General Administration of Press and Publishing (SGAPP) and the Beijing Municipal Government, with the latter in the main.It was previously the Department of Printing in the Cultural Institute under supervision of the Ministry of Culture in 1958. Due to the National Adjustment of Higher Learning institutions and departments in 1961, the Culture Institute was closed. BIGC’s prototype--the Department of Printing was integrated into the Central Academy of Handicrafts and Fine Arts (CAHFA). In 1978, with the approval of the State Council, the Department of Printing branched out of CAHFA and expanded as BIGC. With over 50 years of development, BIGC has become a media university with the coordination of engineering, humanities, management, and the arts. Based on the principle of footing in Beijing and serving the nation, BIGC carries on the responsibility of producing high level professionals for such media and communication industries as printing, packaging, and publishing. It is among the first batch of institutions that were granted the rights to confer bachelor’s degrees in China. The university is a unit acting as vice chairman of the Education Ministry’s Printing and Packaging Academic Committee and chairman of the Printing and Packaging Academic Supervising Committee for National Junior College Education.