Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) was established in 1985, it is a professional publishing institution, specialized in the field of humanities and social sciences, directly under the leadership of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). Based on the rich academic works and expert resources in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, SSAP has great ambitions and always insists on the target to "Create Classics of Social Sciences, Provide Academic Works for Posterity" , it is well on the road of publishing academic works in series, in scale, and in marketization management. SSAP have published books of famous academic brand, such as Yearbooks, Guide to the World States, One Hundred Years of Oracle Bone Inscription Research, 150 Years of Great Changes, Chinese Classical Folklores in 20th Century, as well as plentiful academic series of books involving globalization, contemporary China studies, capitalism studies, world socialism studies, etc. with sound academic influences and high marketing value. They are providing SSAP with increasing popularity and good reputation, and help to establish for SSAP an authoritative position of publications in humanities and social sciences.They are providing SSAP with increasing popularity and good reputation.

In 1998, SSAP entered a stage of so-called "Path-breaking II" and obtained distinguished achievement. SSAP has maintained a publishing capacity of 600 publications and 200 million characters annually. There is a high-quality team of over 130 members for editing, publishing and sales business, with young doctors and masters as the main body and experts of different academic disciplines from CASS as the main support. SSAP has constructed a platform to promote works of humanities and social sciences, and there are high potentials for further development. SSAP has become a professional and outstanding social sciences publishing institute.

In the new development period, SSAP, by combining social needs, self-condition and development of publishing industry, has decided on a new goal of path-breaking, that is: to construct a platform for promoting works of humanities and social sciences, to develop itself into a professional academic press of books, magazines, audio-video and electronic and digital publications for high-level readers and clients in China and abroad, and to be a supplier of the humanities and social sciences resource with unique competitive powers, thus, SSAP can be a notable domestic and overseas specialized academic publishing press.