Third volume of president's governance book unveiled

The third volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China has been published by the Foreign Languages Press in Chinese and English and will be available at home and abroad.

The volume collects 92 articles, including speeches, conversations, instructions and letters of President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, between Oct 18, 2017 and Jan 13, 2020. The articles are divided into 19 topics and the volume also contains 41 photos of the Chinese leader during the same period, according to a statement released on Tuesday.

It was jointly compiled by the State Council Information Office, the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee and the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration.

In the practice of leading and promoting governance in the new era since the 19th CPC National Congress in October 2017, Xi has made a series of important speeches and put forward many major concepts and ideas, further enriching and developing the Party's theoretical innovations, the statement said.

The third volume records the work of the CPC Central Committee, with Xi at the core, in uniting and leading the whole Party and Chinese people of all ethnic groups to make new and major progress in various undertakings of the Party and country since the 19th CPC National Congress, it added.

As an authoritative work that fully and systematically reflects Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the newly published volume is expected to help the international community better understand the main contents of the Thought, the CPC, Marxism and socialism with Chinese characteristics, said the statement.

The first and second volumes of the book, with editions in different languages, have been well received at home and abroad since they were first published in 2014 and 2017, respectively.

Many foreign leaders and politicians, including Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen, former Peruvian president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and former French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, are readers of the book.

Raffarin, who had asked Xi to autograph the first volume of the book for him, said that it offers an opportunity for the international community to learn more about China.

"I read the book with keen interest as it expounds China's development philosophy and reveals the political aspirations, concept of governance and great plans of Xi Jinping," he said.

China Daily - Xinhua