A lot of new schools were set up during the “new deal”period in the late Qing Dynasty and there was a great demand of new textbooks to meet the needs of new courses. Commercial Press was born at the right moment and it took advantage of a turn of the situation by gathering many outstanding scholars who served as professional textbook writers and compiled textbooks with new contents. What Commencial Press olid gave a great push to the compliation of modern textbooks in China, which played an important role in the development of education.