"In November 2012, the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) made the strategic decision to comprehensively deepen reform ... Since the 18th Congress, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President of China, has made many expositions on comprehensively deepening reform and expanding opening up. We have selected extracts from these expositions and compiled them into this book, which is comprised of 274 excerpts under 12 headings from more than 70 of his writings, including speeches, comments, and directives, dating between November 15, 2012, and April 1, 2014. Some of the excerpts are published here in English for the first time."--Editor's note.