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Starting this September, some UK primary schools will be using 36 math textbooks, exercise books, and teachers' guides published by the Shanghai Century Publishing (SCP). The textbooks will be simultaneously used in both Shanghai and the UK.

It is the first time for Chinese textbooks to be adopted by the education authorities of a developed country in such a systematic and large-scale manner.

The textbooks have already been listed as a sample by the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics of the UK.

With SCP's authorization, British publisher HarperCollins UK, the publisher of the textbooks, will be responsible for the promotion of the schoolbooks.