Abstract: The essence of Marxism in China is to form Chinese Marxism that makes Marxism combine with China's realities.Chinese Marxism contains popularization,nationalization,popularity,and should be agebased,realitybased,and theorybased,with a process from form to content and from externalization to internalization.Some of the points related to Marxist theory have been translated and introduced to China before the October Revolution.Marxism was regarded as an ideological weapon of guiding the social change in China in the May 4th era,which pointed out the direction for solving the "Whither China" theme of the time.From the perspective of Marxism in China,it has acquired a characteristic,either externalization or internalization.The extensive spread of Marxism which combines with the Chinese labor movement produced the Chinese Communist Party.The Party has developed a broad program for democratic revolution based on Marxism.It should be said that the history of Marxism in China is a starting point for the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party.

Key words: Marxism in China, internalization, externalization, starting point