President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered a speech during a conference to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday morning.

4日上午，纪念马克思诞辰200周年大会在北京人民大会堂隆重举行。中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席习近平在大会上发表重要讲话。

With noble ideals and no fear of difficulties and adversities, throughout his lifetime, Marx devoted himself to perseverantly striving for the liberation of humanity, scaling the peak of thoughts in his pursuit of truth, and the unremitting fight to overturn the old world and establish a new one, according to Xi.

习近平说，马克思的一生，是胸怀崇高理想、为人类解放不懈奋斗的一生；马克思的一生，是不畏艰难险阻、为追求真理而勇攀思想高峰的一生；马克思的一生，是为推翻旧世界、建立新世界而不息战斗的一生。

习近平说，马克思主义是科学的理论，创造性地揭示了人类社会发展规律；马克思主义是人民的理论，第一次创立了人民实现自身解放的思想体系；马克思主义是实践的理论，指引着人民改造世界的行动；马克思主义是不断发展的开放的理论，始终站在时代前沿(Marxism is a constantly developing theory and always stands at the forefront of the times)。

习近平说，

学习马克思，就要学习和实践马克思主义关于人类社会发展规律的思想(we should study and practice Marxist thought on the law of the development of human society)；

学习马克思，就要学习和实践马克思主义关于坚守人民立场的思想(we should study and practice Marxist thought on upholding the people's position)；

学习马克思，就要学习和实践马克思主义关于生产力和生产关系的思想(we should study and practice Marxist thought on productivity and the relations of production)；

学习马克思，就要学习和实践马克思主义关于人民民主的思想(we should study and practice Marxist thought on people's democracy)；

学习马克思，就要学习和实践马克思主义关于文化建设的思想(we should study and practice Marxist thought on cultural development)；

学习马克思，就要学习和实践马克思主义关于社会建设的思想(we should study and practice Marxist thought on social construction)；

学习马克思，就要学习和实践马克思主义关于人与自然关系的思想(we should study and practice Marxist ideas on relations between humans and nature)；

学习马克思，就要学习和实践马克思主义关于世界历史的思想(we have to study and practice Marxist ideas on world history)；

学习马克思，就要学习和实践马克思主义关于马克思主义政党建设的思想(we have to study and practice Marxist ideas on party building)。