Tobacco Science & Technology, founded in 1957, is the earliest, most widely circulated and most influential comprehensive academic publication on tobacco scientific research and technology development in China's tobacco industry, supervised by the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (SATMA), hosted by the Zhengzhou Tobacco Research Institute of the China National Tobacco Corporation (CNTC), and edited by the editorial office of Tobacco Science & Technology. It mainly publishes academic papers and research reports on scientific research and technology development in the tobacco industry, as well as review articles reflecting the progress of scientific research and academic developments in tobacco at home and abroad. ‘Tobacco Technology’, “Equipment and Instruments”, “Information Technology”, “Review” and other columns.
Over the years, Tobacco Science & Technology has closely focused on the scientific research priorities of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (SATMA) in selecting topics for manuscripts, and is an important source of data for the industry's innovation performance appraisal, identification of enterprise technology centres, assessment and evaluation of the industry's key laboratories and engineering research centres, as well as technical title evaluation, etc., and is also the journal designated by the SATMA for international academic exchanges. It is also a journal designated by the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration for international academic exchange.