NANJING COMPANY SPREADS THE WORD ON BIBLES

Millions of copies produced for export to more than 140 countries, as market offers great potential

Zhong Yuanyuan applied the final layer of glue to the spines of copies of the New American Bible before they passed quality checks and were ready for export to the United States.

The 39-year-old works for the world's largest Bible-printing facility and China's top Bible exporter in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province.

She is just one of more than 500 staff members employed by Nanjing Amity Printing Co, for which printing Bibles has become a specialty. It took the company 25 years to print the first 100 million and just seven years for the next 100 million.