Zhijiang Xinyu (original) (raw)

Zhijiang Xinyu (Chinese: 之江新语) is a book written by the current general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping. It was initially a personal column about political ideas published on the front page of Zhejiang Daily from 25 February 2003, to 25 March 2007. Using a pen name "Zhexin" (Chinese: 哲欣), the author Xi Jinping was the party secretary of Zhejiang Province at that time. Xi published 232 essays in this column. In August 2007, these essays were published in a book also titled Zhijiang Xinyu in chronological order. The name of this book's English edition first published in 2019 is Zhejiang, China: A New Version for Development.