The strategic management is a kind of forwardlooking leadership that focuses on the major issues, the overall situation, the longterm future. Strategic ability is the core competence of leaders. Since the constructing of socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, it requires that leading cadres should cultivate and strengthen their strategic abilities. Xi Jinping attaches great importance to strategic abilities and has formed a thought on the strategic abilities of leading cadres in the longterm leadership practice. Xi Jinping’s theory on the strategic abilities of leading cadres is not only an integral part of the socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new era, but also a basic requirement and action guide for leading cadres at all levels. To explore and understand Xi Jinping’s thinking on the strategic capabilities of leading cadres is of conceptual enlightenment significance and practical guiding value.