BEIJING, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- A book including extracts of Chinese President Xi Jinping's discourses on youth and the work of the Communist Youth League has been published.

The 189 paragraphs of discourses are extracted from over 40 major speeches, instructions, congratulatory letters, and reply letters dating from Nov. 29, 2012 to May 3, 2017.

Some of the discourses are published for the first time.