Xi calls on historians to improve research

President Xi Jinping has called on the country's historians to improve their research and innovation to better summarize historical experience, reveal patterns and grasp the trend of history.

The remarks of Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, came as he congratulated the opening of the academy of Chinese history studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in a letter on Thursday.

Xi called on historians to integrate their strengths in Chinese and world history as well as archaeology, push forward the integrated development of related historical subjects and accelerate the development of discipline, academic and discourse systems with Chinese characteristics.