Xi delivers speech at ceremony for Marx

President Xi Jinping delivers a speech at a grand gathering marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday morning. [Photo/CGTN]

BEIJING - President Xi Jinping attends a grand gathering here to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx on Friday morning. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivers a speech at the gathering in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Here are the highlights of the speech:

Marx's theory still shines with truth: Xi

BEIJING - Two centuries on, despite huge and profound changes in human society, the name of Karl Marx is still respected all over the world and his theory still shines with the brilliant light of truth, Xi said.

Xi said Marx is the "teacher of revolution for the proletariat and working people all over the world, the main founder of Marxism, creator of Marxist parties, pathfinder for international communism and the greatest thinker of modern times."

"Today, we hold this grand gathering with great veneration to mark the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth, to remember his great character and historic deeds and to review his noble spirit and brilliant thoughts," Xi said at the event.