The Party Central Committee, with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, adheres to the idea of “making good use of red resources, promoting the red tradition and inheriting the red gene”, and attaches great importance to the issue of the red gene inheritance of the Communist Party of China. Under the social background of socialism with Chinese characteristics entering a new era, the inheritance of red gene presents the following distinctive features. Not forgetting the original intention and remembering the mission is the ideological connotation of the inheritance of red gene in the new era, promoting the great revolution and carrying out the great struggle is the practice focus of the inheritance of red gene in the new era, and reforming and innovating is the promotion strategy of the inheritance of red gene in the new era. These distinctive features are the CPC’s continuous inheritance, not only inheriting the red gene formed in the historical process of revolution, construction and reform and opening up, but also reflecting the internal laws of the development of the red gene in the new era. Summing up these laws can accumulate strength and provide experience and reference for the “transmission of the red gene from generation to generation”.