Since its founding, the Yuelu Publishing House adopts the policy of “ Edit and Publish Ancient and Old books, Sort Out Local Literature, Publish Academic Works, Strive for Cultural Accumulation”, and its publications such as the Corpus of Chuanshan, Maps of Oceans and Countries, Walk in to the World Series, Collected works of Shen Congwen, Lection of Tunhuang, and the Daily of Xiangyi Mansion have won National Books Awards and Chinese Books Awards. And books rich in local features like Corpora of Zeng Guofan, Corpus of Zuo Zongtang, Zeng Guofan Family Letters Criticized by Tang Haoming, and Corpus of Wei Yuan have had great influence both within China and overseas. A large quantity of popular books like Collected Popularized Volumes of Classical Books, Traditional Mongolia Studies Series, 300 Verses Series, Quoted Sayings of Modern Literary Men Series, Modern Annotations of Classical Books, Poems of Tang Dynasty, Collected Annotated Prose from All Dynasties, Luming Series, and Ancient Popular Novels Series, as well as the high-quality books like Essays of Long History, Famous Works Series by Famous Overseas Writers, and Annotated Li Shangyin Poems have won the extensive love and collected by the domestic and overseas readers thanks to their good text, high quality, beautiful binding & layout and cheap prices.

For over 2 decades since its founding, the Yuelu Publishing House has altogether published books of more than 1300 kinds, with a reprint ratio of about 60%. Its publications have won the trust of readers of different levels with its profound and rich Hunan culture and distinct features as an ancient books publishing house, and have gradually occupied the market, and established an image of a famous publishing house.