Abstract:Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has attached great importance to education. Regarding education as a major plan of the country and the Party, the CPC has insisted on giving priority to the development of education and endearoured to provide a satisfactory education for the people. General Secretary Xi Jinping has put forward a series of disquisitions in terms of strategic position, educational characteristics, development direction, fundamental tasks, reform impetus, opening up to the outside world, and faculty training. Xi Jinping’s expositions on education in the new era, rich in content, logical and far-reaching, are of great theoretical and practical significance in enriching Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, opening up new horizons of Marxist educational thought, deepening the Party and the State’s new understanding of the laws of development of the education cause, and providing valuable experience for the development of the education cause of the countries in the world.