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China to publish almanacs on thoughts of Mao and Deng

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-06-14 22:45

BEIJING - China will publish two almanacs on the thoughts of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, two former top leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC), for the CPC's upcoming 90th anniversary which falls on July 1, the books' compiler said Tuesday.

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The two almanacs along with another on the thoughts of Jiang Zemin,  published last year, will form a series of works that document the major opinions and assertions made by the three generations of CPC leadership.

The two new almanacs, along with two other books on the major events regarding the forming and development of Mao Zedong's thoughts and that of the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, will be published around July 1, said Chen Jin, deputy director of the Party Literature Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, which compiled the books.

According to Chen, the office has so far compiled or written more than 300 books such as literature collections and research works, whose total characters amounted to 100 million.