BEIJING -- The Vietnamese version of Chinese President Xi Jinping's book on governance was released on Wednesday in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.

"Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" contains 79 speeches, talks, interviews, notes and letters of the Chinese leader between November 2012 and June 2014.

The book is believed to help improve the world's understanding of China's development, domestic and foreign policies, and response to the concerns of international community.

Distribution of the book, published in Chinese, English, French, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Japanese in September 2014, has exceeded 5.2 million copies in some 100 countries and regions, according to the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration (CFLPA).

The book was edited by the State Council Information Office, the Party Literature Research Office under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the CFLPA.

The Vietnamese version, released by China's Foreign Language Press together with the National Political Publishing House of Vietnam, is the second version accomplished through bilateral cooperation after the Korean version released in Seoul in October.