Chapter 1
A Key to Understanding Modern China

To discuss the governance in contemporary China, we will need to integrate China’s reality with Xi Jinping’s governing philosophy adopted since the CPC’s 18th National Congress in 2012. The book, Xi Jinping: The Governance of China (Vol. I), published by Foreign Languages Press (FLP) in October 2014, provides us with an authoritative research text. hGJIq3GobNFXU2E3aUUiqZaiF3flykqjFu9iZTEabg6zlhSiAmrQa+nI+xG9ztsa