Mao Zedong believes that the youth bear a political attribute of revolutionary vanguard and reserve forces of the Party. The youth are physically young, energetic, innovative, and hard working. According to the particularity of contradiction, the work for youth should conform to the characteristics of youth. Mao Zedong’s exposition on the characteristics of youth gives us some enlightenment: we should put political attributes first in the process of cultivating new generations of the times; we should lay stress on young people’s all-round development; we should encourage young talents to take the lead, develop their fighting spirit, and guide them to dedicate their youth to national rejuvenation.