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During the launch party, Blair praised the "unprecedented progress" achieved by China over the past thirty years, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Blair's 718-page account of his time in Downing Street, from 1997 to 2007, includes an unprecedented attack on his "strange" successor Gordon Brown, whose premiership he branded a disaster.
It details the personal toll the job took on him, how he used whisky, gin and wine as a "prop", the "animal" feelings he had for his wife, and his relationship with the royal family after princess Diana died.
But it is Blair's decision to take Britain into the US-led invasion of Iraq that lies at the heart of the book.
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011