A book made entirely of gold containing Dr. Sun Yat-sen's manuscripts was unvieled at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday.

The book made of 99.9 percent gold is a collection of 37 scripts written by Sun between 1905 and 1924, as well as eight rare pictures of Dr. Sun Yat-sun, said Chang wenguang, deputy director of Research Center of China Yanhuang Culture.

The cover of the book features a portrait of Dr. Sun.

The book was published by China Yanshi Publishing House to coincide with th 140th anniversary of Dr. Sun's birthday in 2006. The Shanghai Coin Foundry under the People's Bank of China was entrusted to mint the gold book.

Only 5,000 copies of the book will be published at home and abroad.

Born in 1866 in Xiangshan County (now Zhongshan City) in south China's Guangdong Province, Dr. Sun Yat-sen is known across the country as "a great revolutionary forerunner and great statesman" who led the 1911 Chinese Democratic Revolution which overthrew the imperial Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and put an end to feudal rule in China.

Dr. Sun founded the Republic of China in Nanjing in 1911 after the fall of imperial Qing Dynasty. He died of an illness in Beijing on March 12, 1925.

Source: Xinhua