A new book entitled "Xi Jinping's Discourses on Belt and Road" has been published by the Central Party Literature Press in China, according to a report by Xinhua News Agency on Tuesday.

The book, comprising 42 articles with about 130,000 Chinese characters, begins with excerpts from Xi's speech at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan on September 7, 2013, and ends with part of his address at the opening ceremony of the eighth ministerial meeting of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum on July 10 this year.

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Belt and Road five years on: Chinese President Xi Jinping's words of wisdom

Proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) comprises the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road, and aims to build trade and infrastructure networks connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along and beyond the ancient Silk Road routes.

China has signed cooperation agreements with more than 130 countries and international organizations under the BRI over the past five years.

The BRI is an important strategic move of China for its further opening up and represents its efforts to improve global economic governance, promote common development and prosperity worldwide, and build a community with a shared future for mankind, the Xinhua report said.

(Cover: Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing, May 14, 2017. /Xinhua Photo)