President Xi highly values the youth and youth ideological and political education, cordially cares for the healthy growth of young people, and elaborates on youth characteristics, youth status, youth ideological and political education and other issues, forming a systematic theoretical system of ideological and political education for young people. The theoretical system is an important component of the thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era and has significant enlightenment for strengthening and improving youth ideological and political education in the new era.