The year 2024 has witnessed a flourishing period for publishing studies in China. The co-construction of publishing disciplines at the national policy level permeates the entire process of publishing studies. The fundamental concept of collaborative construction of publishing disciplines involves joint participation from government, industry, academia, research, and application sectors in planning publishing discipline specialties. Xi Jinping Thought on Culture has provided novel guidance for publishing studies while stimulating comprehensive explorations of its profound connotations within the publishing discipline. Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is transforming the traditional structure of the publishing industry, attracting substantial attention from both academia and industry. Discussion focuses on how GenAI empowers publishing processes and cultivates publishing talents, while addressing potential risks including human-machine relationships, ethical dilemmas, and privacy and security concerns. The theory of new quality productive forces has sparked fresh reflections on the upgrading of the publishing industry. Scholars and practitioners are investigating how new quality productive forces in publishing can drive the high-quality development of the industry. This also enables more concentrated discussions on the definition and application of publishing data, the digital copyright determination and allocation, copyright exploration in digital work usage, and solutions to related digital copyright matters. Meanwhile, research on red publishing history, prompted by the 75th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, has demonstrated excellence in terms of research topics, materials, and perspectives. Publishing concept research has remained a constant thread throughout publishing studies in 2024, focusing on core concept exploration while examining theoretical aspects of emerging publishing concepts, thereby enriching the understanding of publishing and expanding the connotation of the discipline. Technological advances in reading methods have sparked discussions on reading's relationship with social issues and reading behaviors, employing both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to achieve comprehensive analysis. The publishing industry faces novel opportunities and challenges when going global. These aspects have emerged as hot topics in China's publishing research over the past year, constituting the ten major topics of publishing studies in 2024: collaborative construction of publishing discipline, generative artificial intelligence, digital copyright, new quality productive forces, publishing data, Chinese red publishing history, Xi Jinping thought on culture, reading research, and publishing going global.