Guests unveil the English and French editions of a compilation of President Xi Jinping's discourses on the Belt and Road Initiative during a launch ceremony in Beijing, capital of China, April 24, 2019. (Xinhua/Zhang Yuwei)

The English and French editions of a compilation of President Xi Jinping's discourses on the Belt and Road Initiative were published Wednesday.

The book contains 42 articles from September 2013 to July 2018 by Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.

The new editions were translated and published by the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration and the Foreign Languages Press.