Lee Sei-kee, president of the South Korea-China Friendship Association, addresses the release ceremony of the Korean version of Chinese President Xi Jinping's book on governance in Seoul, South Korea, Oct. 21, 2015. (Photo: Xinhua/Yao Qilin)
The Korean version of Chinese President Xi Jinping's book on governance was released in Seoul on Wednesday.
Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, which compiles the Chinese leader's major works between November 2012 and June 2014, contains a total of 79 speeches, talks, interviews, notes and letters.
The book will improve the world's understanding of China's development, domestic and foreign policies, and response to the concerns of international community.
Distribution of the book, published in Chinese, English, French, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Japanese in September 2014, has exceeded 5.2 million in some 100 countries, according to the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration.
The Korean edition is released by China's Foreign Language Press together with the South Korean publisher Mirae-N.