China to Open World's Largest Bible Production Plant

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http://www.christianpost.com/article/20071210/30427_China_to_Open_World's_Largest_Bible_Production_Plant.htm

By Michelle Vu
Christian Post Reporter
Mon, Dec. 10 2007 02:34 PM ET

China will open the largest Bible production factory in the world early next year, according to a leading U.K. newspaper.

Amity Printing, China’s only authorized Christian publisher, plans to open the new plant on the edge of the eastern city of Nanjing to meet the country’s heavy demands for Bibles, reported The Times of London. The new factory will be the world’s single-biggest producer of Bibles with the capacity to print 1 million Bibles a month – increasing the current output by a third.

“This platform has been built as a blessing to the nation,” said New Zealander Peter Dean of the United Bible Societies, according to The Times. The United Bible Societies, a Protestant organization, works with Chinese Christian charity to print Bibles under Amity Printing.

“It will print Bibles for China for as long as it takes to do it,” added Dean, who has been at Amity in China since 1991.

Last year, Amity printed 3.5 million Bibles and expects the number to rise for 2007. In total, China’s Amity Printing has produced over 50 million Bibles since 1986.

[shain from kane]

1. Outselling The Little Red Book? n/t

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. Oh, the irony! n/t

[enid602]

3. price

I guess all that free trade came iwth a price tag.

[AzDar]

4. Oh, that is PRECIOUS.

:rofl:

[madrchsod]

5. give me a fucking break

the only reason these guys are buying bibles from china is that they are cheap. like everything else the chinese have taken over the printing of books because of cheap labor compared to the rest of the world. no wonder there`s no jobs in america...