SHANGHAI, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- President Xi Jinping has offered congratulations on the publication of the Dacihai, a grand-scale Chinese dictionary.
In a letter read at a symposium in Shanghai Thursday, marking the publication, Xi also gave his congratulations on the 80th anniversary of the publication of the Cihai, a large-scale dictionary on which the Dacihai is based.
The two dictionaries, which fully embody the excellent fruits of human civilization and systematically display the abundant achievements of Chinese civilization, have enriched people's spiritual life and brought them spiritual strength, Xi said in the letter.
