The Thai language edition of the book "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" was released Friday at the parliament building of Thailand.
The book contains 79 speeches, talks, interviews, notes and letters of the Chinese leader from November 2012 to June 2014.
Thai Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha had earlier asked his cabinet to read the book.
"I believe that to be a great leader, one has to be a good reader, good thinker, good speaker, good writer and good doer, and I found President Xi has achieved all of them after I finished reading this book," he said.
Wissanu said the book offered many lessons for the leaders of Thailand, a country that on Thursday promulgated a new Constitution.
"The book is very unique as it tells the governance of a country and also President Xi's great insight, foresight, as well as his philosophy of governance," Pornpetch Wichitcholchai, president of the National Legislative Assembly of Thailand, said at the book's launching ceremony.
Pornpetch receives books as a gift from Jiang Jianguo, chief of China's State Council Information Office, during the book's launching ceremony on April 7, 2017. /CNS Photo
Pornpetch said Thailand’s citizens could learn more from the book about how a major economy like China is run.
The Thai edition of the book was published by the Matichon Group, and its General Manager Thakoon Boonpan also recommended it to Thais as it will help them understand China better and can apply Xi's thoughts into their real work.
Pinij Jarusombat, chairman of the Thai-Chinese Cultural and Relationship Council, told Xinhua that not only politicians and officials should read the book, but students and all Thais should learn from China through it.
Seubpong Changboonchu, a Chinese language teacher in Chulalongkorn University and translator of the book, said it is worth reading as the book can act as a bridge for Thai-Chinese exchanges.
According to Seubpong, the book was first printed in Thailand in September 2016 and now has been printed twice in the country, with very positive feedback from the market.
The book has already been translated into 16 languages with a distribution of over 6.2 million copies around the world, according to Jiang Jianguo, chief of China's State Council Information Office.
Copies of the English version. /VCG Photo
The release ceremony was hosted by the State Council Information Office of China, the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration, and the Chinese Embassy, and organized by China's Foreign Language Press and Thailand's Matichon.
