PHNOM PENH, April 11 (Xinhua) -- The Cambodian version of Chinese President Xi Jinping's book on the governance of China was released on Tuesday in the capital of Cambodia.

Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen and Jiang Jianguo, chief of China's State Council Information Office, presided over the release ceremony of the book at the prime minister's office, Peace Palace.

The ceremony, broadcast live on the country's leading Fresh News website and Hun Sen's Facebook page, was attended by 500 officials, academicians, researchers, and university students.

The book "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" contains 79 speeches, talks, interviews, notes and letters of the Chinese leader between November 2012 and June 2014. To date, it has been translated into 16 languages and has a distribution of over 6.2 million copies around the world.

The book helps readers around the world to better understand China's development, domestic and foreign policies, and response to the concerns of the international community.