In the period of German-French Yearbook, Marx puts forward important ideas on the modernization road through the study of German modernization. Marx believes that modernization is a concrete process of modernity according to social reality, so modernization itself is carried out dialectically and historically. Marx distinguished two modernization style of capitalism and non-capitalism, and through a concrete analysis of the social reality of Germany, he believed that Germany had the theoretical possibility of taking the latter path. The contemporary enlightenment of Marx’s German modernization thought is that it provides theoretical guidance for us to grasp the Chinese path to modernization. The Chinese path to modernization is undoubtedly the most important and greatest practical achievement of Marx’s modernization theory in the contemporary era. It contains the historical narrative of the Chinese nation, the Sinicization of Marxism and the world history.