"Opinions on Comprehensively Strengthening Labor Education in Colleges, Middle Schools and Primary Schools in the New Period" proposes that the overall goal of labor education is:

Through labor education, students can understand and form the concept of labor, and firmly establish the most glorious, sublime, greatest and beautiful concept of labor; Experience labor to create a better life, realize that labor is equal, love labor, respect workers, and cultivate the spirit of hard work, struggle, innovation and dedication; Have the basic labor ability to meet the needs of survival and development, and form good labor habits.

The Opinions put forward important measures such as incorporating labor education into compulsory courses for students and integrating labor literacy into the comprehensive quality evaluation system. As an educational type, the Opinions laid the institutional foundation for the comprehensive construction of the labor education system in vocational colleges in the new period.

The main points of labor education:

Establish students' correct concept of labor and make them understand the great significance of labor. Understanding the history of mankind is first of all the history of production development and the history created by working people; Knowing hard work is the fundamental guarantee for building socialism and communism; Labor is the sacred obligation and right of citizens; People who know how to despise manual labor and manual labor are the remnants of exploiting class thought for thousands of years; Understand the significance of combining mental labor with physical labor.

Cultivate students' feelings of loving labor and working people. Form the habit of work, and form the quality of being proud of work and ashamed of laziness. Resist the influence of bad habits, such as leisure, hate work, covet enjoyment, get something for nothing, extravagance and waste.

Learning is the main labor of students. Educating students from an early age to study hard will take on arduous construction tasks in the future. And educate students to correctly treat further education, employment and distribution.