With the advent of the information age, social life presents a trend of interweaving and integration of digitalization, networking and intelligentization. This situation has changed the subjective and objective environment of ideological and political education. It requires that college ideological and political education better answer the fundamental question of “for whom to cultivate people, what kind of people to cultivate and how to cultivate people”, and then puts forward new requirements for the contemporary construction of the ability system of ideological and political education. First, we should improve the ability to update ideological and political thinking, and shift from “traditional thinking” to “data thinking”. Second, it is necessary to improve the innovation ability of ideological and political mode, and upgrade iteratively from “data mode” to “blockchain mode”. Third, we should improve the ability to expand the ideological and political path, from the “traditional path” to the “information path”.In short, it is necessary to adapt to the situation, advance according to the times and consciously conform to the requirements of the information age, so as to cultivate talents for the country and create more development resources and opportunities for the free and comprehensive development of young college students.