习近平青年观是习近平关于青年特点和地位、青年成长成才、青年教育和工作的根本立场、观点和方法，是习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想的重要内容之一。系统考察和深入研究习近平青年观，对于更好地把握青年的地位和作用，帮助青年成长成才，更好地做好新时代的青年工作，都具有十分重要的理论价值和现实意义。 时代是思想之母，实践是理论之源。习近平青年观是着眼于新时代世情国情党情的深刻变化，着眼于伟大事业、伟大斗争、伟大梦想、伟大工程的现实需要，在准确把握改革开放新一代青年新特质的基础上提出的。同时，习近平青年观也是对其个人成长经历和奋斗经验的深刻总结，在其系列讲话、指示、书信中集中体现。 准确把握青年的特点和地位是认识青年的最初步骤和前提，也是确定青年成才标准、做好青年教育和青年工作的重要基础。习近平在分析青年生理心理特点和历史现实依据的基础上，指出青年是最富有朝气和梦想，是最具创造性的群体，并从历史和现实的角度、世界的视野、未来的眼光分析了青年对国家和民族的作用、对中国共产党的作用、对构建人类命运共同体的作用。 青年成才观是习近平青年观的核心内容。根据青年的特点，着眼于实现中华民族的伟大复兴，习近平强调青年要“有理想、有本领、有担当”。青年应树立中国梦的远大理想，坚定中国特色社会主义的人生信念；青年应专攻博览、勤奋学习，知行合一、投身实践，走在创新创造前列；青年应承担国家富强、民族振兴和人民幸福的历史重任，自觉担负起对社会、家庭和个体的责任。“有理想、有本领、有担当”组成了习近平青年成才观的主要内容。 为更好地发挥青年的作用，动员青年投身到中国特色社会主义伟大事业，实现中华民族的伟大复兴，进一步增强中国共产党的青年基础，习近平强调党委和政府、共青团组织、学校、家庭要做好青年教育和青年工作，在此基础上，形成了青年教育和青年工作观。党委和政府应充分信任青年、热情关心青年、严格要求青年、积极引导青年；学校应承担立德树人的神圣使命，系统开展社会主义核心价值观、中华文化等内容的教育活动，发挥好教师的“筑梦人”作用；家庭是青年成长的港湾，应以家教培养青年高尚道德，以家风涵育青年精神品格；共青团应推进政治性、先进性和群众性建设，发挥组织青年、引导青年、服务青年和维护青年合法权益等功能，团干部应做好青年的知心朋友。 习近平的青年观立论深邃，立意高远，富有规律性，具有很强的时代性和实践性。习近平青年观的鲜明特色体现为坚定的马克思主义哲学基石、深厚的历史思维眼光、深刻的辩证思维方法、恢宏的战略思维智慧、真抓实干的作风要求。习近平青年观既是对青年成长成才和青年工作的科学指引，又是对中国共产党青年思想的进一步发展和创新，具有重大的理论和实践意义。

As an essential content of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Xi jingping’s Outlook on Youth (the Outlook) represents his standpoint, viewpoint and methodology on the characteristics, status, cultivation, and education work of the young people. In order to understand the status and role of young people, provide enough support in talent training and do a better job in the cultivation of them for the new era, Xi jingping’s Outlook on Youth, which is of great theoretical and practical significance, should be explored and researched in a systematic and comprehensive manner. Age breeds thoughts while practice produces theories. Based on the characteristics of a new generation of young people during reform and opening-up, Xi jingping’s Outlook on Youth gives close attention to the profound changes of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the country and the whole world in the new era, and also addresses the needs of great causes, struggle, ideals and construction. Meanwhile, President Xi’s series of speeches, instructions and letters show that the Outlook summarizes his experience of personal growth and striving in details. To understand the characteristics and status of young people is the prerequisite for knowing them, and is also an important basis of setting the identification standards for youth talents and providing a better education for them. By analyzing physiological and psychological characteristics of youth and historical basis, Xi points out that younger generation is a group of people with great vitality, aspiration and creativity, and he also probes into the role of young people in promoting the national development, in following the leadership of the CPC, and in building a community of shared future for mankind from a historical and practical perspective, a broad insight and prospect. The core issue of the Outlook lies in the viewpoints on the cultivation of youth talents. Considering about the goal of achieving the national rejuvenation and the characteristics of young people, Xi emphasizes that younger generations are supposed to “have ideals, ability, and a strong sense of responsibility.” Young people should aim high to achieve the Chinese Dream and have firm ideals and convictions in socialism with Chinese characteristics; young people should pursue a specialized career and comprehensive knowledge, work harder, take action while learning and fully engage in practice, and ride the waves of innovation and creation; young people should shoulder major responsibility in achieving national prosperity and rejuvenation and ensuring people’s wellbeing, and they should also take the initiative to address both social development and personal growth. All of the above consists of the theoretical structure of Xi Jinping’s Outlook on Youth. To give full play to the role of young people and involve them into the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and consolidate the youth group of the CPC and eventually achieve the national rejuvenation, Xi Jinping stressed that youth education and youth work should be done through the endeavors of party committees and governments of all levels, organizations of Communist Youth League, schools and families, which is known as Xi Jingping’s viewpoints on youth education and youth work. All party committees and governments should have faith in young people, treat them with enthusiasm and care, be strict with them, and lead them to the right direction; schools should assume the lofty mission of providing moral education and cultivating young people, and organize activities that impart core socialist values and Chinese culture so that all teachers can fulfill their role as “the Architect of Dream”; as a safe harbor for young people, family should focus on the cultivation of virtues and spiritual characters through education and family culture; the Communist Youth League should promote the political, advanced construction for the general public, and fulfill its role in organizing, leading and serving young people, and league cadres should treat young people as close friends. Xi Jinping’s Outlook on Youth is characterized by its strong arguments, profound meanings, and rich regularities, and reflects contemporary world and practical experience. In addition, it is featured in Marxist Philosophy basis, deep historical insight, dialectic methods, strategic thinking and intelligence, and requirement for good solid work. Xi Jinping’s Outlook on Youth, which marks unprecedented theoretical significance, is regarded not only as a scientific guidance for the growth of youth education and youth work, but also as the development and innovation of the CPC’s thought on young people.