Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Monday attended a conference on Marxist theory.
He said that since the effort to sinicize Marxism began in 2004substantive progress had been made. A contingent of research specialists had made their appearance and some new textbooks published.
He said future research should combine basic theoretical research with significant real-life issues in order to solve China's practical problems.
Research fellows should take an innovative approach and enrich the theory with Chinese practice, he said.