President's discourses on Belt, Road published

A book of discourses on the Belt and Road Initiative by President Xi Jinping has been published by Central Party Literature Press, with national distribution launched on Tuesday.

The book, compiled by the Communist Party of China Central Committee's institution for Party history and literature research, contains 42 discourses totaling about 130,000 words written since 2013, when Xi first proposed the initiative.

Presiding over a meeting in August that marked the fifth anniversary of his proposal, Xi said that building the Belt and Road should rely upon high-quality development and focus on major infrastructure projects and cooperation in production capacity.