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The "(New) General History of China" compilation project is a major national academic and cultural project decided to launch by the Party Central Committee in the new era. On January 9, 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping issued important instructions on the implementation plan of the editing project, requiring high-quality and high-standard editing projects to be carried out to create a masterpiece of the new era with Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, and Chinese style. In June 2020, the compilation project was officially launched. It was organized and implemented under the leadership of the Institute of Chinese History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and has been included in the national "14th Five-Year Plan". This book is an important phased achievement of the compilation project of "(New Edition) General History of China". Based on the framework structure of "(New Edition) General History of China", it outlines and clarifies the main line of China's historical process and the evolution of social form, and concisely explains the law of Chinese historical development and the characteristics of Chinese civilization. The narrative period of this book starts from the origin of civilization to the new era. It adopts the chapter format to narrate the main historical facts of the past dynasties, grasp the salient characteristics of each social development stage, present the objective and true Chinese history from different aspects such as politics, economy, culture, and ethnicity, and clarify the profound heritage of the Chinese nation's spiritual values ​​and historical culture. Taking national unity and social development as the main thread, focusing on key changes and key nodes in Chinese history, highlighting the historical mainstream, historical achievements and historical trends, and explaining how the new era came from historical China, the brilliant achievements and great historical significance of the new era fully demonstrate our historical and cultural confidence.

"A Brief History of the World: The Evolution of Human Civilization" is a popular book that observes world history from the perspective of Chinese scholars and comprehensively displays the Chinese people's view of world history. It uses concise and easy-to-understand words to explain the historical context of mankind from primitive society, slave society, feudal society, capitalist society to socialist society. It also illustrates the evolution of human history from relative isolation to close connection. It uses pictures and texts to show the general development trend of human society from the "Stone Age" to the "Information Age". "A Brief History of the World: The Evolution of Human Civilization" is based on sufficient and objective historical facts, rich and conclusive historical materials, and strives to scientifically present the social development process of various parts of the world, the interconnectedness of different regions, and the contributions made by people of various countries to human civilization, comprehensively display the colorful historical picture of mutual learning between Chinese civilization and other civilizations in the world, and truly reveal the bright future of the people of all countries in the world towards a community with a shared future for mankind.

"The Story of China in Ten Cultural Relics" is a popular book about Chinese historical stories told by Chinese archaeologists and historians through national treasure-level cultural relics. There are many cultural relics in China and they are rich in types. They embody the wisdom of Chinese history, reflect the depth of Chinese history, and demonstrate the long-standing, extensive and profound Chinese civilization. Through cultural relics, we can understand historical China, understand civilized China, and appreciate the turbulent years that Chinese archeology has gone through. We have selected ten representative cultural relics, and through the eloquent narrations of experts and scholars, we will present the discovery of the cultural relics, their connotations, and the Chinese concepts, Chinese spirit, and Chinese values ​​contained in the cultural relics in easy-to-understand language. We strive to make cultural relics come alive and display Chinese civilization in a more three-dimensional way. This book is rich in pictures and text, well-organized and simple in language. It is professional and popular. It is a window for readers to get closer to cultural relics and open a window to understand Chinese history.