BEIJING -- A total of 20 foreign publishing houses signed a memorandum with China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration Tuesday on jointly translating and publishing the fourth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" in multiple languages.

These publishing houses are from countries including Afghanistan, Albania, Greece, Kenya, the Republic of Korea, Pakistan, Mongolia, Poland, Tajikistan and Vietnam.

The fourth volume records the great practices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in rallying and leading the whole Party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups to finish building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and starting a new journey toward building China into a modern socialist country in all respects.

It is an authoritative work that fully and systematically reflects the new horizon opened up and a new leap-forward achieved by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.

The fourth volume has been officially published in multiple languages such as French, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Japanese.