Textbooks for training of officials published

BEIJING, March 27 (Xinhua) -- A series of textbooks designed as learning and training materials for Chinese officials have been published by the People's Publishing house and party Building Books Publishing house.

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist party of China Central Committee, wrote a preface for the textbooks.

The textbooks expounded the great significance, scientific system, spiritual essence, and demand of practice of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the publishers said at a meeting here Wednesday.

The textbooks are now available at Xinhua Bookstore outlets across the country.