The report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) stresses the need to “nurture a new generation of capable young people with sound moral grounding, intellectual ability, physical vigor, aesthetic sensibility, and work skills who will fully develop socialism and carry forward the socialist cause”. “Physical labor”, as an important part of the CPCs education policy, was written into the report to the CPC National Congress for the first time. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made a series of important expositions on comprehensively strengthening labor education in the new era. In terms of theoretical logic, General Secretary Xi Jinping has taken the Marxist view of labor as the fundamental guideline, demonstrated the principles of fostering virtue through education, highlighted the comprehensive value of labor education, and emphasized the dominant position of the working people; in terms of historical logic, he has inherited the CPCs thought on labor education, which has been promoted as an important part of the CPCs education policy in the new era; in terms of cultural logic, he has promoted the creative transformation and innovative development of the Chinese fine traditional culture of labor and integrated it into the whole process of fostering virtue through education; and in terms of practical logic, based on his own labor experience in the process of growth, he has focused on redressing unhealthy tendencies of some young people in the current period and made strategic arrangements for cultivating the laborers needed for highquality development.
