Insights into Xi's thoughts on governance for the new era

I am very pleased to come to London to host together with all of you the launch ceremony for the multilingual versions of the second volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, during the London Books Fair, the most important spring pageant of the global publication industry. On behalf of the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China, I warmly welcome the friends who have come here to attend the launch event and express my heartfelt thanks to various circles who have made great efforts for the preparatory work of the event. I would like to extend my particular thanks to Prince Andrew, Duke of York, an old friend of the Chinese people, for your attendance at today's launch event given your tight schedule.

The second volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China has been jointly compiled by China's State Council Information Office and the China International Publishing Group, containing 99 speeches, talks, instructions or congratulatory messages made by President Xi Jinping from August 18, 2014, to Sept 29, 2017, as well as 29 photographs from this time. In September 2014, the first volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China was published, which received wide attention and praise from both Chinese and foreign readers. The first and second volumes of the book, which are a holistic entirety, constitute the main content and the basic structure of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.

To my knowledge, quite a few foreign friends are studying Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, in an effort to understand Xi's thought and find clues on where the thought, which has already been written into China's Constitution and the Constitution of the Communist Party of China, will lead the world's most populous nation. Here I want to tell you that all the CPC has done, as President Xi has promised, is to seek happiness for the people, seek national rejuvenation, and seek greater harmony for the world. With such kind of knowledge and perception, we can acquire the key code to the ideological treasure house of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China. The charm of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is mainly reflected in the following aspects: