Museum of Chinese Printing

The China Printing Museum is situated at No.25, Xinghua Beilu, Huangcun Town, Daxing District. It covers 3,000 square meters (0.74 acre), with a total exhibition area of 4,600 square meters (1.14 acres). It is the biggest printing museum in the world, divided into four exhibition halls and some specialized exhibition areas.

The exhibition hall on the third floor displays the origin of printing and ancient printing methods. With pictures, explanatory notes and articles, it introduces the origin, invention and development of printing and its introduction to other countries from the late New Stone Age to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The hall shows the well-known diamond sutra of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the movable type made of certain kind of earth that was invented by Bi Sheng in the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), and the rotary composing plate invented by Wang Zhen in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368).