It was initially a personal column about political ideas published on the front page of Zhejiang Daily from 25 February 2003, to 25 March 2007.

In August 2007, these essays were published in a book also titled Zhijiang Xinyu in chronological order.

The name of this book's English edition first published in 2019 is Zhejiang, China: A New Version for Development.

[6] Professor Yao Huan of the Beijing Party School divides these 232 essays into three categories: In addition to being published in mainland China, a traditional Chinese edition was published in Hong Kong in 2021.

[8] This book was also translated into several languages such as Mongolian,[9] Spanish,[10] German,[5] English[5] and Russian.