The Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (FLTRP) was established in Beijing in 1979 by Beijing Foreign Studies University (former Beijing Foreign Languages Institute), and later in 1995 was merged with Beijing Foreign Language Audio-visual Publishing House. The FLTRP always deems it its duty to promote the popularization of foreign language education in China and the deepening of academic research. It is now advancing towards an academic and educational publishing group.

The FLTRP is a press that publishes books in the most kinds of foreign languages. In addition to publishing books in such languages as English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Arabian, it also publishes textbooks and reference books in such non-universal languages as Swedish, Czech, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Serbian-Croatian, Albanian, Singhalese, Swahili, Cambodian, Laotian, Thai, Burmese, Malay and Indian, as well as Esperanto and Chinese for foreign learners. From 1997 the FLTRP began to test-produce electronic publications, and in December 1997, it bought Beijing Silver Disk Electronic Technology Co., ltd. Consequently, it has made an important step in developing, producing, publishing, and distributing of electronic publications.