新疆在解放前由于经济的落后,特别是历代统治者压制各民族思想文化的发展,所以一直没有建立专门的出版机构,因而也没有正式的出版物。解放初期,很多少数民族文字图书甚至从苏联进口,汉文图书则是靠内地供应。当时,中共中央新疆分局和新疆省人民政府,根据各民族迫切需要出版物的实际情况,根据党的民族政策和中央人民政府政务院关于发展出版事业的指示,决定尽快筹备建立新疆自己的出版机构——新疆人民出版社。中共中央新疆分局常委、宣 Due to the backward economy before the liberation, especially the rulers of all ages suppressed the development of various nationalities’ ideology and culture, Xinjiang did not set up a special publishing agency and therefore did not have any official publications. In the early days of the liberation, many ethnic minority literary books were even imported from the Soviet Union while Chinese books were supplied from the Mainland. At that time, the Xinjiang Branch of the CPC Central Committee and the Xinjiang Provincial People’s Government, in accordance with the actual situation of publications urgently needed by various ethnic groups and in accordance with the party’s ethnic policies and the directives of the Central People’s Government and the State Council on the development of publishing undertakings, decided to prepare for the establishment of Xinjiang’s own publishing agency as soon as possible - - Xinjiang People’s Publishing House. CPC Central Committee Xinjiang Branch Standing Committee, declared