On December 6, 2020, a seminar was held in the Documentation and Information Center of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Engels. The seminar was co-sponsored by Shanghai Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era and Shanghai Research Center for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. School of Marxism of USST and Journal of USST (Social Sciences Edition)held the seminar on the subject of “Study on Upholding and Developing Engelsism and Marxism”.
The opening ceremony of the seminar was hosted by Professor Jin Yaomei, dean of School of Marxism at USST. Professor Liu Daoping, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of USST and Secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of USST, gave a speech at the ceremony. We are still in the era guided by Marxism when the spirit and ideas of Engels shine as the light of truth, despite many changes in the world more than a century since Engels’ death. Today, we remember Engels at a critical moment when the world is undergoing major changes unseen in a century and we are going to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It is important to carry on the great scientific thinking of Engels, said Liu.
Over 60 people attended the seminar, including professors and scholars from universities in the Yangtse River Delta such as Fudan University, Zhejiang University, East China Normal University and Nanjing Normal University, media representatives from Guangming Ribao, Wenhui Daily, and Jiefang Daily, and teaching and research representatives and graduates and other relevant people from School of Marxism at USST. The seminar had two parts: presentations and discussion. It attracted both online and offline attendees who interacted with each other.
The seminar concluded with the speech given by Ding Xiaoqiang, adjunct professor of USST and professor of School of Marxism at East China Normal University. He said it was necessary and significant to run a seminar on “Study on Upholding and Developing Engelsism and Marxism” two hundred years after Engels’ birth. The views and ideas of attendees would help the field of philosophy and social science in Shanghai to study Engels at depth and better understand his theories, and especially offer a source of reference and theoretical foundations for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era, a valuable contribution made by attendees as intellectuals and Marxists and Leninists.
