Xi book excerpts published

“Excerpts of Xi Jinping’s Discourse on Urban Work” published

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 20 – The book “Excerpts of Xi Jinping’s Discussions on Urban Work” edited by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s Party History and Literature Research Institute was recently published by the Central Literature Publishing House and distributed nationwide.

Cities are the centers of our country’s economic, political, cultural, and social activities, and play a pivotal role in the overall work of the party and the state. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has deeply understood the important role of cities in my country’s economic and social development and the improvement of people’s livelihood, and has continuously strengthened the party’s leadership over urban work, insisting on people’s cities for the people, and promoting people-centered The new-type urbanization of China has blazed a path of urban development with Chinese characteristics. Comrade Xi Jinping’s series of important expositions on urban work are lofty in purpose, rich in connotation, and profound in thought. They have clarified the values and methodology of urban development, revealed the law of socialist urban development with Chinese characteristics, and answered the question of who depends on urban construction and development. For the fundamental question of who, what kind of city to build, and how to build a city, it is necessary to continuously promote the modernization of the urban governance system and governance capabilities, improve the level of new urbanization, improve the quality of the urban environment, the quality of people’s lives, and the competitiveness of cities. It is of great guiding significance to build harmonious, livable, vibrant, and distinctive modern cities, create a new situation in people’s city construction, comprehensively build a socialist modern country, and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

“Excerpts of Discourses” is divided into 7 topics, with a total of 300 paragraphs of discourses, excerpted from more than 120 important documents including reports, speeches, congratulatory letters, and instructions of Comrade Xi Jinping from November 2012 to December 2022. Some of them are published for the first time.