Labor education is an educational activity that makes students love labor and working people.
Labor education has three basic characteristics: first, it has a distinct ideological nature, emphasizing that laborers are the masters of the country, and all laborers should be encouraged and respected, and opposing all erroneous ideas of getting something for nothing, advocating getting rich and coveting pleasure; The second is to highlight sociality, and to guide students to the society, to know the society, to enhance their sense of responsibility, and to understand the new equal and harmonious labor relations in socialist society; Third, it is obviously practical, with hands-on practice as the main way to guide students to learn to build the world and shape themselves on the basis of understanding the world, so as to achieve the purpose of cultivating sentiment, increasing wisdom, strengthening physical fitness and educating beauty.
The "Guiding Outline" once put forward that the education of labor concept and labor spirit should run through the whole process of talent training, family, school and society, and pay attention to let students understand the meaning and value of labor in the process of learning and mastering basic labor knowledge and skills.