A guide book had been published to help Chinese officials fully grasp a speech by Chinese President Hu Jintao that lists the key tasks to reform China's cultural sector, said the book's publisher Sunday.

The book, titled "Further Push Forward the Reform of the Cultural System to Boost the Great Development and Prosperity of Socialist Culture" was recently published by the official People's Publishing House.

With a total of seven chapters, the book explains and interprets Hu's speech systematically and comprehensively in a simple and understandable way, the publisher said in a statement.

Hu made the speech at a high-level meeting last month.

In the speech, he said cultural innovation needed to be encouraged, while emphasis should also go to accelerating the building of a network providing cultural services and improving guidance for the production of culture so as to meet the public's needs, among other things.