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Booklet of Xi's speech published

A booklet of the speech by President Xi Jinping at a recent symposium with teachers and students at Peking University was published on Monday by People's Publishing House. Xi, who is general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, gave the speech on Wednesday about boosting China's internal innovation power and improving the country's talent lineup. Xi was paying a visit to the campus ahead the 120th anniversary of the university, which fell on Friday.

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