Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core adheres to dialectical materialism and historical materialism, combines with the new era conditions and practical requirements, and boldly carries out theoretical innovation on the basis of practice. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has put forward a series of new ideas, new thinkings and new strategies, forming the socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new era. This thought has distinctive features in basic position, guiding ideology, struggling goal, system design, strategic deployment, basic strategy, international strategy and so on. To deeply understand Xi Jinpings thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, we must accurately grasp the characteristics of this thought.