BEIJING, Jan. 16 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping's book on governance has sold more than 3 million copies since its release in September 2014, the book's publisher announced on Friday.

As of Thursday, total sales of the book titled "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" reached 3.17 million, including 2.95 million Chinese version copies and 225,000 copies in foreign languages, according to the Foreign Languages Press.

The book collects speeches and instructions by Xi from Nov. 15, 2012 to June 13, 2014.

On Jan. 1 this year, the book's digital versions in several foreign languages were available in Amazon ebook stores.