Textbook publishers connect professors, instructors and students in ways that alternatives, such as open e-textbooks and open educational resources, simply do not.

China has also taken steps to protect the students' eyesight, such as larger printing in students' textbooks, at least two hours' outdoor activities a day, regular eyesight checking, less time on E-books and so on.

Teachers of Chinese must teach students one of the survival abilities, i. e. how to get along with people by making good use of the textbooks with colourful teaching materials in them.