Together with the development of the market economy in Vietnam, printing enterprises have increased both in quantity and quality. According to the latest statistics of the Vietnam Printing Association (VPA), there are currently over 1000 printing enterprises locating mainly in Ho Chi Minh. SMEs scatter in other regions across the country.

The arrangement and changes of activities in state - owned enterprises have contributed to diversifying the ownership of capital and boosting the printing industry. The Statistical Office in Ho Chi Minh City (www.pso.hochiminhcity.gov.vn) gave the figure that the number of enterprises doing business in field of publishing, printing and copying has been increased rapidly over the past few years.

The leading printing companies are Tran Phu Printing Company (40 billion pages per year), No.7 Printing Joint Stock Company (5 billion pages per year), Tan Binh Culture Joint Stock Company (Alta) in the South while in the North they are Aviation Printing Joint Stock Company, Hanoi Textbooks Printing Joint Stock Company.

Annually, the printing industry achieves the output of more than 400 billion pages with an average increase of over 10% per year, in which, Ho Chi Minh City holds up to about 45%. In 2001, the export turnover of book publishing reached 1,416,023 USD, and import turnover was 3.5 million USD and in 2004 the export turnover reached 2.1 million USD, and the import turnover was 6.1 million USD.