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The Liao, Song, Xia and Jin eras were the golden age of my country's publishing industry. The Jin regime established by the Jurchens inherited the existing publishing achievements of the Liao and Northern Song Dynasties and continued to develop on this basis. It made important contributions to promoting the development of publishing in northern my country and had an important impact on the publishing industry of the Yuan Dynasty. However, there are still many weaknesses in the current academic research on book publishing in the Jin Dynasty, and it is impossible to fully understand the book publishing in the Jin Dynasty. Moreover, the existing research results are more focused on the printing of Jin Dynasty books. Issues such as the compilation of Jin Dynasty books, the location of Jin Dynasty book engravings, and the circulation of Jin Dynasty books need to be further discussed. Based on actively drawing on relevant research results in the academic community and extensively collecting first-hand information, this manuscript conducts an overall in-depth study of book publishing in the Jin Dynasty from various publishing processes for the first time.