BEIJING, Dec. 19 -- China on Friday launched an online column to elaborate some key political and cultural phrases such as "socialism with Chinese characteristics" and "comprehensively deepening reform."

The website China.org.cn has published official interpretations of such phrases in six foreign languages -- English, French, Russian, Arabic,Spanish and Japanese, as well as in Chinese.

The interpretations are made by combining China's actual situation, historical and political backgrounds.

For example: core socialist values. It was proposed at the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in November 2012 and, composed of 12 key words and phrases including "prosperity," "democracy," "freedom," "patriotism" and "rule of law," according to the interpretation.

According to the website, these phrases contain China's core ideas, and the interpretations will help foreigners understand these words and China's development concept and road, and domestic and foreign policies.