Xi Jinping’s important expositions on youth work is an important part of Xi Jinping’s thoughts on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the New Era. Xi Jinping grasped the background, group characteristics, and value status of the youth in the New Era, and established a new orientation for youth development in the interweaving period of the “two overall situations”; from the three dimensions of theory ,history and reality, he opened up a new path for youth growth in the intersection of “two centuries”; he made full use of strategic thinking, developmental thinking, dialectical thinking, and systemic thinking to open up new thinking for youth work during the important strategic opportunity period; and he clarified the strategic position of youth work, the theme of the times, path and method of youth work, and the reform strategy of the Communist Youth League, initiated a new achievement in youth work in the new stage of development; made new contributions to the Marxist outlook on youth, and contained rich values of the times .