Nowadays teenagers in China lack gratitude awareness and disregard family affection, friendship, social kindness and natural nourishing love, which are caused by the negative social influence, fraction of gratitude culture, single moral education, dislocation of family concept and lack of self-cultivation, etc. All sectors of society like the government, society, schools, family and teenagers themselves should take effective countermeasures for a great solution. The construction of gratitude ethics should be put in the vision of harmonious development so that the Chinese traditional ethical thought of gratitude could have a good inheritance and development.