Held by the National Library of China and the Publicity Department of the CPC's Zhejiang Provincial Committee, an exhibition about The Communist Manifesto, the book by the great German thinkers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, kicked off in the National Museum of Classic Books in Beijing on Thursday.

The exhibition has four parts, elaborating on the birth of the book, its spread in China and around the world, and pictures about the book. Visitors can see 306 versions of The Communist Manifesto in 55 languages. Important exhibits include the 1883 German version, 1888 English version and some original manuscripts of Marx and Engels.