[1][2] It is a joint venture with Amity Foundation and United Bible Societies.

[3] In its first year (1988), it printed 500,000 Bibles on a press donated by UBS.

All Chinese Bibles are distributed not by the state-run bookstore chains (such as Xinhua Bookstore), but through the network of officially registered Protestant churches.

[citation needed] Since China's adoption of the New Regulations on Religious Affairs in 2018 that banned online bookstores from selling Bibles, the APC has been facing difficulty in printing Chinese Bibles.

This has caused a shortage of Catholic Bibles in Hong Kong.